^^Bull-fucking-shit Decky.

I just explained to you how scientific theories/evidence/proofs, formulated by men under the influence of the physical laws of our universe, cannot possibly prove or disprove a god that resides OUTSIDE these physical laws.

It's like measuring the speed of a cheetah and claiming it's the fastest living animal, even though the peregrine falcon can go much faster than a cheetah because it's bound by different laws of physics - It flies through the air, rather than running on land, allowing it to travel much faster.

Your "proofs" are worthless because your imaginary god doesn't follow the same rules as the "proofs".

For example, omnipresence is technically impossible as far as the laws of physics are concerned, because the speed of light is finite and it would take time for the photons to reach their destination. Yet, you claim your god is omnipresent - a direct contradiction to the known laws of physics. And still you post your bullshit "proofs" of god, which are based in a world where the speed of light is finite.

Either you have faith, or you don't. I don't care. But don't try and use science to prove the existence of your god, because the two are, by definition, incompatible.

1.6 Billion people aren't following this ideology - if that was true then everyone would be dead from terrorist attacks.

What we need to do is understand why a small minority of people feel so angry and under-represented by society that they feel that terrorism is their best option.

We need to fight the underlying cause, not the symptom.

Exactly, there's no way from stopping crazy extremists from blowing themselves other than trying to educate them and show them that perhaps that's not the most productive thing they should be doing.

It doesn't matter how much security staff you employ, how many security measures you implement or how many people or vehicles you search - someone can always get through and blow themselves up.

And considering how unlikely it is to be the victim of a terrorist attack (at least in Western countries), the best thing to do is just to not worry about it. In the UK, you are more likely to die from a furniture accident than from a terrorist attack.

The media love a terrorist news story, because it's scary and gets loads of people reading it and riled up. Terrorists are a bit like internet trolls IMO, the best thing we can do is ignore them as much as possible - by publicising their attacks we are fueling the fire for more of them to get on the bandwagon, which is exactly what they want!

I'm loving the grime right now...

Lowkey - Who Said I Can't do Grime? (2nd part when he stops spelling out words and starts properly spitting is totally dope) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rLdoLyitw

Kano - 3 Wheel-ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ZP946eNVQ

Dizzee Rascal - I Don't Need a Reason (sick bass bizness) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlzgDVLtU6g

Wiley & Devlin (Black and white video, black and white rappers  ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcroTw04i-w

Nice. Slayer rock hard.

I don't know if I could name a favourite band, I go through stages of enjoying very different styles of music, some of them bands and some of them more like electronic producers.

I'm totally into a French producer called Igorrr right now, he fuses elements of baroque classical music, black metal, and electronic breakcore to create some absolutely insane music. It's pretty, um, out there... but amazing stuff. He's also releasing a new album in the next couple of months.

One of his earlier tracks, "Tendon", pretty mental (especially the ending): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWca1X7nFGo

Here is a live performance of one of his tracks with one of his vocalists, amazing singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk1K5Mmnbg

Here is an EP with him collaborating with another breakcore artist, Ruby My Dear. Very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHG9WbyHKmg

I've always loved Cradle of Filth, although their newer albums are pretty shit compared with their old stuff. They are a sort of "extreme metal" band from the UK, with elements of black, death, gothic and thrash metal. Many tracks about vampires and mythical demons etc, very silly but they don't take themselves too seriously and some of the lyrics are very well written.

One of my favourite tracks by them is "Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids" - youtube vid with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m46c_dBVKHk

I am also very much into a synthwave "band" called S U R V I V E, they are a synth group that made the soundtrack for the series "Stranger Things".

Here is there newest album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30CFPklA8Q, I absolutely love the track "Dirt" at around 8.10, but the whole album is an amazing journey and worth listening to from beginning to end.

Another good synthwave producer is Mitch Murder (who made most of the soundtrack to Kung Fury), here is one of my favourite tracks "In The News": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7rK3Eks4s

So yeah, I'm into pretty weird stuff right now, but I like everything from Bjork to Napalm Death, Paul Simon to Gustav Holst.

Edit: Oh yeah I forgot about Kraftwerk, those guys fucking rock! Radioactivity live, absolute synth and visual sickness... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNUzfcNGKHo

Source: http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/the-10-hottest-years-on-record

OK, so this data seems compelling, especially when we take into account the correlation between the increase in temperature and the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere:



Source: http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/

I understand that the Earth's temperature has fluctuated a lot more in the past than it is now, but never with the same correlation of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
I also understand that the concentration of CO2 has often lagged behind the temperature changes in the past, but as I understand it this is a two way street - if the CO2 concentration gets too high, too quickly, it can certainly cause warming and a feedback loop. Just because this hasn't happened in the past doesn't mean it isn't happening now.

Not to mention there could be other effects of such a rapid warming, such as methane being released from permafrost, causing the feedback loop to become even more extreme.

Another interesting link regarding the authorities/groups of scientists that are actually measuring the changes in temperature - It seems that there are 4 independent bodies producing datasets in this field:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-do-scientists-measure-global-temperature

Although not a huge amount of datasets, their data seems to correlate reasonably closely as far as I can see, and it's certainly not a single organisation making up data as they go along.

Yes, many of the earlier climate models that people shouted about 5-20 years ago were way off, but that doesn't mean that the current data is wrong. Past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance - you just need to look at the Bitcoin charts to see that!

Source: http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/the-10-hottest-years-on-record

Leftists, Rightists, Communists, Anarchists... Your political stance has absolutely nothing to do with the data, so why do deniers keep using political ideology as some sort of insult on people's intelligence? Grow up Anonymint, if you have some actual scientific refutations on the data then approach the subject like a grown-up, rather than resorting to political smear campaigns.

Aha, I was waiting for Bitcointalk's resident Buddhist to show his face! How's life up there in your state of nirvana?

 

Yes, but if you're using altcoin faucets then you're just gambling in the hope that the altcoin will gain value in the future - you may as well just buy some of those altcoins and speculate on their value increasing, bypassing the whole faucet altogether.

I don't really understand your $5000 gaming mouse comment, if you're good at programming then just make a bot yourself, I'm not suggesting anyone pay money for a bot!

And your last comment reminds me of the scourge of signature campaigns here on BCT - by incentivising people to post just to get money for posting creates an environment where everyone posts bullshit just to get paid. Fuck that shit, it creates an annoying signal to noise ratio where the interesting content gets buried underneath irrelevant nonsense.

Are you guys trolling? Dubai is not a fucking country, it is a city/emirate in UAE you bloody idiots. I know this and I haven't even been there  

As for my favourite country, I'm from Wales (in the UK), and although it is a beautiful country it is hard to get work here and can get quite boring.

Of the countries I've visited, Iceland has to rank high up there as it is an amazing place, friendly people and incredible scenery. I also like Germany, but specifically Berlin because the people and culture are so exciting. I have also visited California, Nevada and Texas in the USA, which was incredible fun. However, I'm not sure how much I would enjoy some of the other states, especially the crazy mid-west ones with mental Christians with assault rifles and crazy cultish Mormons...  

I hope to move to Vietnam soon, which I've heard from friends is a great country with friendly people, breathtaking scenery and very cheap living costs. Sounds amazing.

Not unless the faucet user is doing something actually useful other than clicking a virtual button.

Unless you were lucky enough to use faucets a few years ago, and save the bitcoin you made from them, then they are essentially useless. It makes much more economical sense to do a job, get paid in fiat and buy bitcoins with some of the fiat that you earned.

Like I said, randomly clicking buttons is a bots game, Bitcoin can enrich the human race!

(Then again, if you're clever enough to program a bot to earn money from faucets without you doing it yourself, then go for it! I'm not sure if this is possible, I've never tried, but if it is then it would be a nice [if small] form of income).

I agree with you, but regarding the bolded part, this quote by the legendary comedian George Carlin is relevant:


What a scary world we live in...  

Interesting, I wonder how many of the buyers are reading the book to reinforce their own ideologies, and how many are reading it as a historical lesson, perhaps to learn from the mistakes of the past...

The fact that a version is being printed by a "right wing publisher", without the textual notes, possibly to normalize its arguments rather than to show the flaws in them, is also quite interesting (if a little scary)

It's worth mentioning that The Mirror is not a very reputable source, they are a tabloid newspaper that have certain ideas that they like to push upon the general population, to appeal to readers of a certain disposition. Not that I don't believe the facts in the story, just worth mentioning that many UK newspapers have a strong bias towards certain political ideologies.

Oh dear, I post something that absolutely and meticulously refutes your flawed logic, and you turn to what seems like psychological projection...

No my friend, it may be hard to accept but it is you, a person that was probably indoctrinated into a Christian belief system when you were young, who has trouble with critical thinking and developing an open mind to changing your beliefs.

Story time: I used to believe in a lot of weird things, for example when I was younger I read some books written by individuals who were high ranking USA military officials, and they convinced me that aliens had visited Earth and were in cahoots with the American government. After a few years, and some critical thinking, I realized that I had been a victim of the "Appeal to Authority" fallacy, and that there really wasn't much evidence to support this hypothesis.

So I changed my opinion. I decided that to "believe" something was really just a silly concept, everything has an element of probability and we can only make rational opinions on things that have a certain amount of evidence. These "alien stories" that I read simply didn't have enough concrete evidence for me to consider them plausible. That may change in the future, perhaps if some solid evidence comes to light i might change my mind again. Until then, it is illogical for me to believe that aliens have visited Earth, as it is illogical to believe in angels or god.

Solid scientific theories or laws, such as evolution or the laws of gravity, do have huge amounts of concrete evidence behind them. And they all point to life evolving from single-celled organisms into the human beings we see today, and an Earth that is 4.5 billion years old.

How these single-celled organisms came into being is still a bit of a mystery in scientific terms, but that's something great about science - if there is not enough evidence for a hypothesis it's fine to say "We don't really know exactly how that happened yet, but we're trying to find out."

It's incredibly illogical and naive to assume that anything we don't fully understand must have been made by some god, when no solid evidence of that god exists. Don't post your series of links again please, because as I said earlier they are not only misleading, but invalid as they are based on the laws of physics we experience here on Earth.

There are countless examples of people saying "god did it" throughout the whole of human history: The sun, stars, diversity of life, seasons, rain, lightning, tornadoes, rocks and precious stones, the list goes on.

The vast majority of these "anomalies" have been so thoroughly explained by the scientific method, that their origin and behaviour is rightly assumed to be fact. And that will be the case until opposing evidence is put forward that disproves these theories. Until that day, we should look to the scientific evidence as the most logical way to interpret the world around us.

Of course, nothing can ever be proven 100% (other than logical and mathematical concepts). But when something has been proven 99.999% then it's logical to assume it's a fact, until solid evidence opposing it is shown.

Otherwise we start going down rabbit-holes where anyone can make absolutely anything up, write it down, and claim it as irrefutable fact cough..bible.cocough...

 

No no no, you cannot claim that evidence, (they're not proofs really, as I said earlier the only true proofs are things like mathematical proofs, so from now on I will call them evidence), based on the laws of physics, can tell us anything about a being that doesn't follow the laws of physics. How can you not understand this?

All the science we know was written by man, under the influence of the standard laws of physics. Therefore any scientific theories, laws or even proofs that they observed,  can only be valid on an entity that is under the influence of those same laws.

If god isn't under the influence of these laws of physics, or has "different physics" to the universe, then none of that science can prove or disprove him, because the science was formulated under different conditions.


Aaand the rest of your post was incoherent babbling... I think what you're trying to say is "physics is so great, it had to have been made by god". Not a valid argument I'm afraid, you're making claims with zero evidence. Also even if you do believe that "god made physics", it could have been any god, nothing to suggest it was your Christian god.

I have absolutely no problem with you having faith in god, you're free to believe what you want and that's fine.

But there is, and probably never will be, any scientific proof of his (or her, or it's) existence. If you believe in god you need to rely on your faith in him, not in some pseudoscientific "proofs" of his existence.

And your claims of this proof is not only tedious, it strikes me that maybe you do not have as much faith as you think you do.

Maybe that's something you could bring up with your vicar/bishop/pastor/cult leader.

 

Hi, welcome to BCT!

First off, you should know that the off-topic section of this board is pretty random (and has a few strange characters ), you'd probably find some better answers to your question if you posted it in the "mining" or "development and tech" sub forums.

I'm no expert, but I have used mining hardware and I have a rudimentary understanding of it so I'll tell you what I know.

The newest hardware, The ASICs you mention, do one thing and one thing only - computing SHA-256 hashes as fast as possible. I'm pretty sure they would be useless in the project you're describing, and they can't be modified to do anything else.

Before ASICs there were FPGAs - field-programmable gate arrays. These might be worth looking into as, unlike ASICs, they can be programmed to do different things. Also, you might well be able to find someone on the mining sub forum who would sell you some cheaply, as they have been obsolete in bitcoin mining for a couple of years.

And before FPGAs everyone used GPUs - standard PC graphics cards.

Both FPGAs and GPUs are suited to parallel processing applications, so if your project needs this kind of parallel processing it might be worth investigating.

If your simulated population of animals are "interacting" with each other, then perhaps you don't need parallel processing, and instead just need an actual supercomputer! But I think certain FPGAs can be programmed to do a lot of mathematical functions very efficiently, so that's certainly something to look into.

Do some research on FPGAs, and see if they could be programmed to do the computations in your simulation. If so, it would definitely be worth trying to obtain a cheap one from an old school mining enthusiast in the "mining" section of this forum.

You might also find some experts on this type of thing on reddit.com, perhaps in a programming or mathematical modelling sub reddit.

Good luck!

Hunter S. Thompson

Also... "We can't stop here, this is bat country!"

Man that film (and book) cracks me the fuck up, and it's got its dark scenes as well...


Edit: Bat Country scene https://youtu.be/P2pgWsYSyUA

I use them to obtain the waters I need to survive in this cruel world. I'm thankful I can receive water from a faucet and don't have to travel miles every day balancing a container of water on my head, like many do

 

Seriously though, I've never used bitcoin faucets, and never will. Not will I sell myself out to signature campaigns.

The bitcoins I own were bought with my own money, or mined on a home made rig that I built myself in a plastic crate.

I am no scrounger - I buy and generate my own bitcoins! Mostly for moral reasons , partly because faucets seem like such a tiny bullshit amount of Bitcoin to do annoying things to receive.

Clicking is for bots, bitcoin is for the human race!

Whoops!! 

Not to mention this gem...


So BADecker, pray tell, how can any of your "proofs" (which are, by definition, based on the physics of the universe) tell us anything about a god which doesn't abide by those laws of physics?

Your "proofs" are ridiculous, both scientifically and philosophically.

 

Depends what they're into.

I got into anime through the classic 90s films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll.

You can't go wrong with Death Note, I would say that's one of the best modern anime series.

One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 are good because they are funny, and have great animation and action too.

Attack on Titan is cool but I'd recommend the others that I mentioned first, just because they're a little more accessible.

There's also some weirder stuff that I love, but I might not show someone who hasn't seen anime before: NG Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, Mushishi, GitS SAC, Paprika, Berserk, Basilisk, Samurai Champloo, Urotsukidoji etc.