O-hyo-Go-zymas. Well, it's morning here anyway.  |
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.....I am no longer willing to intervene to defend a stranger. If I see someone being hacked to death by a crazy guy, I will draw my weapon and cover my retreat. It is just to legally risky to help.
No. There are options. For example, you might try: "Leave him alone! He's mine, I want to hack him to death. Get away!" Then when the perp comes at you.... hehe  |
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lol, well there was certainly some intelligent designing going on there. But let's think about what the really did. No one has ever created life from scratch. In this example a bacteria was modified to accept a "man-made" DNA sequence. This was made possible because we know what DNA is and how it functions in evolution. Indeed this experiment is another confirmation of evolution. In the future perhaps there will be a truly synthetic life form. If that happens then intelligent design will be a real thing, but it wont change our history of having evolved. To a biologist, all living things are the same living thing. I don't know why, but a DNA molecule started replicating in the past. It is still doing it and has branched into many species. Plants, animals, fungi, all are the same and one can even swap DNA between them. We are going to see some crazy things soon. Look, I already knew how you were going to respond. In so doing you admit that I have refuted your prior argument. That was easy because it was "classical Darwinism". Then you proceed to admit the future holds "crazy things". So we are in agreement. However, you can't duck and dodge the matter, even though you've tried. Neither is it proper to 'shift the goalposts' regarding the assertions of the religous ID crowd in order to substantiate the scientific approach and accomplishments. Look, the problem is not in a scientific approach to Intelligent Design - it's with a religious approach. We have had and will have Intelligent Design, period. We've had a little of it and we're going to have boatloads of it. When I say this, it means I don't need to refute your other statements, because we agree on the fundamentals. Let me know if you think that sums it up nicely. I'm not sure I totally understand. You are drawing a distinction between those who are interested in ID for religious vs. scientific reasons? Because science is open to any question. "Could all this be created by an intelligence?" is a fair question, but I am not aware of any result indicating it. And I am not disputing that genetic engineering is a kind of "intelligent designing" in nature. Now that evolution it is understood at a chemical level it can be tinkered with. That is all based on Darwin's work. The main thing that has changed since his original theory is that more mechanisms for evolution have been found. Darwin noticed "natural selection". Which is still recognized as the primary driver in nature. Does all that mean we agree? |
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I don't know what I'm going to find out. My simple plan is to compare coverage and price, and I am only interested in saving money. Let's see what they have.
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But owning cash is risky in itself. Firstly it can be stolen or lost. Secondly, it could devalue very quickly in such a scenario. Good thing you have an alternative now. If the above would happen the price of Bitcoin would be the out of the stadium  True. Increasingly, dollars look like frequent flier miles. At the time I was more concerned with being cut off from my cash. |
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I try not to be too paranoid, but I learned something in 2008. As the collapse played out I went to the bank to withdraw my savings and most of my checking. I explained to the teller (and then the manager) that I was worried about a freeze in liquidity and preferred the cash. I was assured repeatedly and vehemently that there was nothing to worry about. Now I know that the entire US financial system was within hours of shutting down. The ATMs would stop dispensing and the banks would close. I did not believe them then and I don't now. You have to be the grown up when dealing with banks. They do not know something you do not. Trust yourself.
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Why would I trust a vice dealer in the first place? Gambling games are not "games", they are systems to transfer your money to the house.
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So the guy who kept saying bitcoin will fail now has some advice about how to invest in bitcoin? What could go wrong?  |
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Welcome. |
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Nothing personal, threaten my family with death and I will shoot your brains out. I'm not mad at criminals, indeed I feel sorry for them and wish they would make another choice. But the choice to die is theirs not mine. If you want to break in and kill, rape, steal, with impunity ; try New York, LA, Chicago, D.C...But don't try a state that allows people to protect themselves.
Those who want to go unarmed are welcome to. But don't expect me to protect you. All the sensitivity and legal issues about this have caused me to rethink my training regime. I am no longer willing to intervene to defend a stranger. If I see someone being hacked to death by a crazy guy, I will draw my weapon and cover my retreat. It is just to legally risky to help.
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Welcome fellow peer. You have some neat ideas! Thanks for your contribution to the community.
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I love the Onion. |
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I'm excited to see the prices on the plans offered by Obama care. I'll report back later in the week; after Oct. 1.
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Hello and welcome. The first thing you will learn is that mining has become highly specialized and will require money, time, and equipment. You might find it more cost effective to sell stuff for bitcoins, or even buy and hold. In any case, there are a lot of cool bitcoin projects going on right now.
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lol, well there was certainly some intelligent designing going on there. But let's think about what the really did. No one has ever created life from scratch. In this example a bacteria was modified to accept a "man-made" DNA sequence. This was made possible because we know what DNA is and how it functions in evolution. Indeed this experiment is another confirmation of evolution. In the future perhaps there will be a truly synthetic life form. If that happens then intelligent design will be a real thing, but it wont change our history of having evolved. To a biologist, all living things are the same living thing. I don't know why, but a DNA molecule started replicating in the past. It is still doing it and has branched into many species. Plants, animals, fungi, all are the same and one can even swap DNA between them. We are going to see some crazy things soon. |
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....Unlike evolution, which has seen no contrary findings in over 150 years of research.
Huh? There are a group of hypotheses and concepts related to evolution, which have seen ongoing and continual revisions. The nature of a 'revision' is of course to invalid previous beliefs. Let's not oversimplify any of this. And note it is continuing, and there are many areas of genetics that are the subjects of controversy. I suppose revisions and tweaks to the theory are ongoing. But the idea that new species arise from older species through an evolutionary process has never been contraindicated. The revisions are in support of the theory. Darwin knew nothing of DNA, yet it's discovery helps to explain the chemical mechanisms by which evolution happens. So again, there has never been a finding that contradicts evolution. And there have been thousands of experiments confirming the process of evolution. It is the basis for all modern biology and is used daily in fields like medicine. I'm an evolutionary biologist, this is something I'm up on. If you are aware of a finding contradicting evolution, please publish, you will likely get the Nobel prize for it. |
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OMG, the creation museum is the funniest ever. A friend of mine went and loved it. He especially liked the diorama showing how cavemen used harnessed dinosaurs to pull giant plows. You know, back in the dinosaur times 5000 years ago. |
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welcome fellow peer!  |
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I like the encrypted pigeon idea. Unfortunately, the NSA has already developed a 12Ga. packet sniffer.   |
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They will lose a lot of customers and volume because of this.
The only customers they will lose are the one's no reputable business wants anyway. You want to put your money in the hands of a nigerian prince, there are plenty of "no-contact-info" exchanges out there ... Good point. There will always be illegal exchanges. Of course they will be full of criminals and you will have your coins stolen. And even if bitcoin becomes main stream you will have no legal recourse at these sites. |
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