I think life was created by a universe - without any god, without any creator - people cannot understand the power of the universe and they cannot just believe that this was all done just by happening - without any god.
By your explanation, since this life is complex way beyond what people can easily figure out, and since the universe created life, the universe is god. It is much easier to believe that god exist and he creates us all.. it is very easy.
True. Atheists have great faith, because they believe there is no God in the face of the evidence around them. Harder is to find another answer and prove it. When you talk about a god you don't need to prove anything - because god is the god ...  The proof is in the fact that you are the only YOU that there is. You are in yourself. You are not in anyone else. You are you, just like I am I. So ... I am so sorry I think a footprint of a creator is a sound of a big bang that is spreading through whole universe! :]
No evidence of a big bang. Just a lot of political screaming that there was a big bang. Nobody has proof of it. The evidence can be interpreted many different ways. "Big Bang" is science fiction. Of course, now we have Bit Bank, called Bitcoin. Focus there, because evolution is 100% fantasy, except for the fact that it is political science - if you say something long enough and loud enough, people will start to believe it sooner or later. The definition of "god" at http://dictionary.reference.com/ suggests the Supreme Being. |
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In America, hospital workers have freedom to decide how much pay they get.
How is that? Pay is different at different hospitals and medical centers. Go to one that pays more and has the benefits you want. Negotiate your pay with the hospital/medical center. There is even a line on the employment application form where you can write down the amount of pay you want. Join a health care union and work to get wages increased through the union. http://www.amednews.com/article/20100222/business/302229968/6/The point is, while the U.S. government suggests wages, they don't force them on anybody except temporarily for emergencies. The closest they come is the minimum wage for general laborers. When you have a government that takes money from the people through taxes, so that benefits to the people can appear to be free, the people might be happy with the benefits that they receive. But, they are also unhappy that they cannot keep the benefits of their own labor. For example, a healthy person who loses part of his pay to the medical tax, might never get any benefit, because he is healthy. Such loss of one's labor causes an apathetic mood in the people. They don't work as hard. They don't care about the quality of work that they do. This is one of the major reasons why America became as powerful as it has. The people got to keep most of their wages, so they felt that they were really working for something for themselves. Besides this, when government controls money, there is more opportunity for government people to siphon off some of the funds, secretly, for their own personal use. Government medical regulators stand to benefit the most. If you want a powerful nation, let the people keep the money they earn. America could become powerful beyond imagination if they would only drop income taxes to only 5%. Why? Because the people would work hard, compete quality-wise, and generally do a good job, because they could keep almost all of their pay. |
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They are starting to duplicate U.S. freedom success.
One Russian lady, not resident of Italy, fall and broke the leg in 2 dots, i take her to Hospital, and they make several analysis for free, give a hospitalization for 5 days, still for free, they will nothing from Russian medical assurance. US people can only dream about that living, and still calling own life "success". All the doctors and the nurses just love to work for free, right. You just love to work for free, don't you? You love to work hard and receive nothing, right? If payment comes from government, where does government get the money? Government gets the money from the people through taxes. "For free" means nothing. It does not exist. ALL workers get paid. In America, hospital workers have freedom to decide how much pay they get. In Russia, government decides how much pay hospital workers get. Way more freedom in America. |
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My reptilian friends just funded me in order to post the following here:
'Open a damn high school physics book or at least try something without damn magnets. It so previous century'
State promoted ignorance is bliss. |
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America is a hundred times more free than Russia.
Tell Your jokes to mr. Snowden, mr. Assange or mr. Manning. (And let U.S. Department of the Treasury to issue US Dollar.) So you see? The U.S. is so free that the Big Bankers, and the people, have used the Federal Reserve Note to conquer the world for the last several decades... and even bypass the U.S. Treasury. Finally Russian leaders are starting to understand how it works. They are starting to duplicate U.S. freedom success. But they are still afraid of freedom enough that, Russian freedom is all show. Russian leaders could take Russian freedom away in a minute. As it becomes time for something new, Bitcoin is starting to take over. Who are they foreign "Big Bankers"? If You like to listen about Russian Federation in the light of last events - go to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCoAQHH-Icbi6-TaCxcARWmgykW_AI8woIf You will be a new Wanga - start to publish Your view on the future of Rusian Federation, and maybe some numbers of future LOTTO or Sport Beat (to understand Your capacity of predicting the Future). I am happy that the Russian people are getting more freedom and peace than they have had for a long time. I hope it lasts. And I hope it spreads all around the world. |
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Everybody wants a good amount of freedom. Most people want security. The bankers want control of everything. In order for the bankers to retain control, they need to give the illusion of freedom and security to the people. But when the people are as informed as the Internet is allowing them to be, bankers' illusions are difficult for the bankers to maintain. The people can see through them. What happens then is freedom. Why? Because the only illusion that works is the real thing. When the bankers can't hide what they are doing anymore, they will actually give real freedom just to remain in control. The benefit for the people is freedom. The benefit for the bankers is freedom, because they won't have to be all stressed out not knowing how to retain their control. The bankers will retain control. That control will be true freedom for the people. And that is how it should be. |
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America is a hundred times more free than Russia.
Tell Your jokes to mr. Snowden, mr. Assange or mr. Manning. (And let U.S. Department of the Treasury to issue US Dollar.) So you see? The U.S. is so free that the Big Bankers, and the people, have used the Federal Reserve Note to conquer the world for the last several decades... and even bypass the U.S. Treasury. Finally Russian leaders are starting to understand how it works. They are starting to duplicate U.S. freedom success. But they are still afraid of freedom enough that, Russian freedom is all show. Russian leaders could take Russian freedom away in a minute. As it becomes time for something new, Bitcoin is starting to take over. |
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I really enjoy this thread. Life in Russia (Judging by the pictures) Seems very pleasant. It seems like a great place with plenty to see and experience and judging by the amount of pictures you have posted you seem like a proud Russian.
I am an American and Do not agree with My Governments involvement with world affairs. I among many other Americans really have no hard feelings towards Russia as a country or the Russian people So let me just say Hello and thanks for a great thread of very nice pictures of your country and people.
Keep up the great work.
P.S. your cars seems so old is this normal in russia or are there Modern cars there also? Also, what was that Gigantic Military Hovercraft doing landing on a beach with lots of civilians on it? Is that normal?
Don't let the apparent pleasantness blind you to the fact that the Kremlin can take over in every way any minute. The pleasantness allowed is done to kick the economy into gear. America is a hundred times more free than Russia. If America would wake up and realize what they have - and Americans will - the oppressiveness of the U.S. government would disappear almost overnight. The longer Americans wait to take back their rights, the harder it will be. It will happen, but we need to stop playing and get serious about it. |
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Don't drink. Tilt head back and let flow down. Booze, too. |
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I believe magnets hold a lot of potential energy, for the reason that electricity and magnetism are one and the same.
For example electricity can be converted into magnetism and vice-versa.
Induction creates heat or electricity as well, and electricity creates magnetic fields as well.
Magnets hold their magnetic power for years, decades, maybe centuries or longer, and they have a lot of power.
If we could somehow directly transfer this energy without waste or with a very small percentage of waste (in the form of heat or other forms of energy we can't utilize, unless heat is wanted of course) I believe magnets could make incredibly lightweight efficient batteries that can last a lifetime.
Imagine a plane engine running on electricity powered by several magnets stored inside the wings (where we now store fuel) and the plane having enough power to not have to refuel for months, years, decades, or maybe even the complete lifecycle of the airplane itself.
Impossible? I don't think so, it's not exactly 'free energy' as you will eventually drain the magnets. But since magnets are found inside the earth anyway and since magnets do have a lot of energy stored (at least, that's what i think) it would be converting one form of energy into a more useful form of energy.
It's like nuclear fission or fusion, except safer. Except we don't know if magnets can be used in this way yet, and if so, how to do it.
Yes, i know we can generate electricity from magnets and we often do, but we are not using the magnets like batteries yet, so that doesn't count, the methods we use now are very primitive, and i believe they can be several orders of magnitude more efficient.
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Perpetual motion: Impossible.
You know, it'll be EXTREMELY difficult to make something better than a generator. The efficiency just isn't there.
You have to produce all possible electricity from the coil, and have minimal flow resistance to the motor, just to allow for it to power itself. Creating excess energy, to power other things, is an even more difficult task...
It will have to be kick-started by something, often, in order to keep the machine producing...
+1 perpetual motion machines aren't physically possible -> entropy. If you want to believe what they teach in college, so that we don't look for what is there and reasonably obvious. Consider the river that powers the turbine to make electricity. We might direct the river a little, but we certainly don't cause the water to exist. The whole thing runs constantly. And if you do regular maintenance on the dam, the water keeps on flowing, all by itself. It might flow like this forever. So the turbines might make electricity forever. Is it perpetual motion in the "pure" sense? Probably not. But we simply don't know enough about all the secrets of the universe to be able to tell for sure. Someday we might. Yet, for all intents and purposes, in a practical sense, it IS perpetual motion. The rains have been coming, the waters have been flowing, for thousands of years. If people knew how to make turbines and generators 5,000 years ago, they could have. That's at least 5,000 years of perpetual motion! Starts will die -> Water will freeze -> River stops generating energy Perhaps. But we don't know this. And, we don't really know if physics was the same 5,000 years ago. Maybe electricity wouldn't have worked back then. The point is that the water flowed back then, just like it does today. We can regulate it some, but we can't turn it on, and we can't turn it off. It all is part of the gigantic universe in which man is only a tiny nothing. It might be perpetual motion in the pure sense. Who knows? We certainly don't have enough data to tell for sure. As far as tiny man is concerned, it might as well be perpetual. |
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Aren't they just so adorable? |
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I was thinking this thread would be about atheists who treat government as their new religion. Ah well.
Yes, it's true that nations which have fewer religious people--not necessarily atheists, but any non-religious, i.e. at least semi-rational--live happier, more peaceful and productive lives. Not because religion isn't present, it's because people who choose non-religion typically have more powerful reasoning skills, which is perfectly ideal for the market environment: ability to negotiate and foresee implications, rather than resorting to violence (whether criminally or politically) and advocating equality-of-outcome.
Isn't an atheist a believer that God doesn't exist? Isn't religion essentially what a person believes and confirms by his actions, though it may not be organized religion? Hasn't science proven that nature has developed untold numbers of things that are way beyond what man understands, at least presently? Doesn't the definition of "God" include someone or something that is way beyond man, or that has developed things that are way beyond man? Isn't it about time that we re-evaluate how much of the scientifically expressed "opinions" are simply political propaganda, and how many are scientific truths? We are being misled by political propaganda about how random the universe is and about how great man is. It's being done so that we fall prey to "delusions of grandeur," and the politicians can control us because of the weakness of our pride. It's time that we wake up and see that, if humans are making great advancements in knowledge and technology, we are on the bottom of the pile of the kinds of creatures that have the abilities to do such. |
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Too late now. Next time add the hash to the DNA before conception. |
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Firstly, this points out two of the biggest negatives of PoW. #1 - The centralization of PoW mining will become more and more centralized over time, because big operations such as this will make the little guys unprofitable and therefore push them out of the market. #2 - The huge amount of electricity that is wasted needlessly with PoW. Secondly, it's nice to see where our "June 2013" Avalon deliveries went and the reason for the 2 month delay.. these guys have some balls allowing a news story about this.  Thirdly, again these guys have big balls... if I was operating such a large mining farm I would tell no one. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night thinking someone may break in at any moment or hold me hostage to get the location of the equipment. All they did was black out their eyes... But this is small compared with the one in Washington D.C. mentioned in the article. And there's a video of it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CjldZLXiAU |
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WOW, this is amazing! The huge electricity bill, the terrible noise and this:  Now I can understand why mining is not for everyone. After looking at the calc in franky1's post at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740717.msg8370294#msg8370294, I'd say these guys could make their big $BUCKS refurbishing these outdated computers, and selling them through Tiger Direct or something. |
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Are you two trying to see how long the moderator lets you keep your nonsense up? I am just trying to make a point,but if it bothers you,i am sorry! Doesn't bother me at all. Just kinda humorous, that's all. Usually the logic in something like this is way more evident. |
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fuck me! now thats how its done  $200k in BTC is only 400btc which equates to 13btc a day which equates to 0.55btc an hour which equates to 0.09259259 a block which is 0.4% of network hash or 640 terrahash units or 2500 avalon3 units Good math. Seems to me that they said something like 2500 units running at all times, didn't they? |
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