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741  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Google self-drive cars get green light on: May 17, 2015, 09:19:10 AM
Would they have to be automatic transmissions? I cannot stand auto boxes.
742  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: May 17, 2015, 08:09:19 AM
I'm opening my church of brainwashed idiots.

Entry fee is 1337BTC

If you are accepting brainwashed idiots, how will your church differ from the thousands out there already?   Wink

Yeah. Look at how much the churches called colleges and universities charge to study the religion of evolution!

Smiley

The difference is what your taught in college/university is based on fact/theory/observations etc..., what you're taught in church however is based on blind faith, with a dollop of wishful thinking. Naturally of course, church proponents would never admit to this.
743  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I googled: "The Times 0(...)" and it completed the sentence... on: May 16, 2015, 11:00:08 PM
Maybe I should stop to use google and find another 'motor' like duckduckgo.

Well, give it a try for a week or two. You've got nothing to lose.
744  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I googled: "The Times 0(...)" and it completed the sentence... on: May 16, 2015, 05:55:39 PM
I don't get how Google showing me personalized results automatically means they're evil. Also, I have used DuckDuckGo and it never gives me useful results.

lets say you searched for diamond rings.. 2 months later you get a phone call from a scammer who has bought your search data to find out people with above average income to afford such things

lets say you searched for bitcoin. .. 2 months later you got a email from a scammer that bought your data to find people that may own bitcoin. the email contains a trojan

lets say you searched for a medical condition you might have.. 2 months later your medical insurance provider cancels your insurance unless you pay a higher premium because they believe you have a medical condition you did not disclose..

the point is:
personalized results within your own browser is not evil.. but what they do with your data behind your back, without you knowing is...

Or maybe a friend of yours is suffering from depression. You do a search online to learn more about it.
A year later, your life insurance policy is refused because you might be depressed and high risk.

The list of things is really endless.....
745  Other / Politics & Society / Re: This frozen chicken “had a rich, emotional life.” on: May 16, 2015, 05:44:57 PM
I am totally NOT against the idea of some group of scientists actually finding a possible method or complete scenario or complete flow regarding evolution. While I am not actually hoping for it, I certainly wouldn't mind if somebody found a complete way that evolution could have happened, from the start of inorganic to life, to the life that we have today. In fact, I would like it if several of these methods were found.

It would prove that God had created mankind so great that they could even find out how to make life evolve. Of course, then there would be the problem of proving that evolution actually did the job, and not God.

Smiley

Tell you what, why not rewrite the bible (which is okay because it's been done before) and add a bit of evolution into the story line.
You can then fully believe the theory 100%. Cheesy
746  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I googled: "The Times 0(...)" and it completed the sentence... on: May 16, 2015, 04:10:44 PM
I don't get how Google showing me personalized results automatically means they're evil. Also, I have used DuckDuckGo and it never gives me useful results.
They aren't necessarily evil. It's just you have nothing to gain, but everything to lose, from them having MASSIVE amounts of data on their very accurate profile they've built of you.


You're wrong. I do have something to gain: personalized, more accurate results. Yes, it's not comparable, but it's not nothing either.

Okay I agree it's not nothing, but do you really need personalized results?
I cope perfectly fine without them.
747  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: May 16, 2015, 04:06:44 PM
I'm opening my church of brainwashed idiots.

Entry fee is 1337BTC

Why pay 1337 BTC when I can easily choose a free one?
748  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pussy coin ? :p i dont really find the whole money thing makes any sens... on: May 16, 2015, 04:05:07 PM
MONEY = Set BACK RELAX AND FUCK THE POOR PEOPLE FOR THERE HARD WORK

This would happen regardless if money existed or not.
749  Other / Politics & Society / Re: This frozen chicken “had a rich, emotional life.” on: May 16, 2015, 04:01:58 PM
Cheesy

Haha these militant veggies are pretty funny. It's natural and healthy for us to eat meat, the canine teeth in my mouth prove it.

Rape is also natural. Doesn't prove anything.

While rape does happen in the natural world (humans/apes/dolphins etc), we have not evolved to exhibit traits designed to facilitate rape specifically. However we have developed traits to specifically eat and digest meat, such as our teeth. Therefore I don't think it's a fair comparison.
Actually our teeth are not evolved to eat meat and almost all mammals have canine teeth so this argument is completely invalid in any case. Also we have a lot of digestive similarities with animals that are herbivores.
Just wanted to point out that misconception.

OK, I've done some reading and it seems that yes, some mammals do have canine teeth so that argument is not as valid as I first thought. However, some of these mammals may have evolved from recent carnivores, whereas we probably evolved from recent herbivores, such as Australopithecus. So it could be a case that either these mammals have not lost the canines yet, or they use them for another function, such as fighting or tusks for display.

Our digestive system as a whole has most certainly evolved to be omnivorous, not vegetarian. The human digestive tract is shorter than that of herbivores, and we have lost the function of the appendix to digest cellulose.

Our ancestor Australopithecus had a big large intestine, and large flat teeth to munch and digest vegetation. Later, this species moved to the plains and began to eat meat, many scientist believe this was where our anatomy began to evolve to process meat more effectively. Meat is a more concentrated form of energy, our ancestors would gain energy more efficiently by spending an hour eating meat rather than 5 hours eating berries.
There is also evidence that, more recently in history (1.8m years), our ancestors discovered how to cook meat, which is easier still to digest.

Therefore, due to natural selection, our guts got smaller and we saved energy in digestion, enabling us to be more successful in survival.

There is a lot of evidence that the introduction to meat eating enabled our ancestors to evolve bigger brains, and therefore able to spend less time foraging and more time to develop social structures. This would have progressed the species' intelligence.

Many scientists believe that it is no coincidence that Humans are the most intelligent species, and also the only ones to cook their food.

C'mon you guys. This topic is serious. Stop turning it into as religion by suggesting that something evolved.

Smiley

OK you bloody god-botherer, so now Evolution Theory is a religion, as well as Atheism... Please leave your ideas about the definition of religion out of unrelated threads, you're free to spout that nonsense in threads about religion.

When are you jokers going to wake up and see that evolution as it stands now is one of two things. It is either religion, or it is sci-fi. Why? Because the amount of evolution that has been proven to exist is relatively small.

There is NO proven evolution process that takes inanimate material to life. In fact, the theory for it isn't complete. The evolution that has been scientifically proven has so many holes in it in this way, that we don't even have a complete working "scenario" whereby evolution could become life. Lot's of ideas. Some reasonable theories. But no start to finish scenario where all the parts have been proven. Not really even close. Not even complete start to finish theory.

However, if we had a working scenario, then we still would have to prove that it was the one that happened. Probably by the time somebody DOES come forward with a complete, working flow of evolution, there will be several such working flows, all of them diametrically opposed to each other, as to how evolution could have happened - gone from inanimate to life. The one that is the truth (if somebody even has the right one) will still need to be proven that it is the one that really did happen. We might totally need a time viewer for that.

The point is, those who believe that evolution is truth based on the evidence so far, hail it in a form that at least approaches religion (certainly isn't philosophy). The rest of us call it science fiction. Wake up.

Smiley

Mention evolution and it doesn't take long for the angry Christians to start their hand wringing. LOL Cheesy

There is NO proven evolution process that takes inanimate material to life.

Observe how he deliberately changed the theory of evolution so that meant something that it doesn't.
Theory of evolution says nothing of the origin or point of evolution. It describes how new species come into existance.



Notice how he doesn't know that the formation of life from inorganic materials is part of the standard evolutionary process. However, no-one has proven that the things that are called evolution in the sense that BO is saying, are not simply programed-in methods that living creatures have for adapting to climactic and other conditions.Science simply hasn't become that capable, yet.

Smiley

I believe BADecker is referring to Abiogenesis where life began from nothing.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

Yes, correct, there is no proof of evolution, that's why we call it a theory. Obviously.  Roll Eyes
750  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pussy coin ? :p i dont really find the whole money thing makes any sens... on: May 16, 2015, 03:32:25 PM
Guys lets think wisely the base of the world are food, water, cloths, Home right.

So why we need money ?

Your anser will be like this : we need money to buy them Dah!! right?

But no my friend you're wrong , lets me tell you money was made by lazy people and evil, how?


listen i  believe some people in this world im not gonna call them smart But evil, love the idea of money to buy everything without f***king do  nothing imagine that  Roll Eyes


and look we will be f***cked soon .

 Kiss

Obviously your broke.
751  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I googled: "The Times 0(...)" and it completed the sentence... on: May 16, 2015, 03:28:57 PM
I don't get how Google showing me personalized results automatically means they're evil. Also, I have used DuckDuckGo and it never gives me useful results.
They aren't necessarily evil. It's just you have nothing to gain, but everything to lose, from them having MASSIVE amounts of data on their very accurate profile they've built of you.
752  Other / Politics & Society / Re: David Cameron plans to allow police to vet anyone's internet communications on: May 16, 2015, 07:43:28 AM
I use bitcoin. Am I classed as an "extremist"?
753  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I googled: "The Times 0(...)" and it completed the sentence... on: May 16, 2015, 07:23:53 AM
google is smarter than you think.  if you want to see it in the results, they will try and show it to you.   hard to explain how or why in one sentence but.. they're watching you.

Yes. This is why it is critical people stop using Google stuff ASAP.
754  Other / Off-topic / Re: IOS VS ANDROID on: May 16, 2015, 07:02:45 AM
True, but those can be deleted or sized-down if you know how to.
Without rooting, not really. Well at least not on my S5.
There is an option to 'disable' a few of them but that's not the same as uninstalling.


HTC One M8

I use F-Droid market place now, instead of Play Store.
https://f-droid.org/
If I really need an app from the Play Store not in F-Droid, I sideload.

I stopped using Android when I found out to my horror Google uploaded all my phone contacts, wifi passwords etc.. to their servers for "backup reasons".
Indeed. Even though that makes things easier when one switches phones, they should have done something else.
They should have made a software to backup on a PC. In this case iOS is better, as I've stated already.

Oh, I turned the backup option off in settings>privacy and thought that would be okay.
It was, until an OTA (over the air) update came through. A few weeks later, whilst fiddling with phone, I discovered that option I unchecked previously, had "as if by magic" re-checked itself.

That was the last straw.
755  Other / Off-topic / Re: IOS VS ANDROID on: May 16, 2015, 05:29:31 AM
Neither. I use CyanogenMod, without proprietary Gapps installed.
On which phone if I may ask?
Most android phones come with too much unnecessary bloatware ranging from 40-50 (usually) applications.
The phones would be much faster if there were less.

HTC One M8

I use F-Droid market place now, instead of Play Store.
https://f-droid.org/
If I really need an app from the Play Store not in F-Droid, I sideload.

I stopped using Android when I found out to my horror Google uploaded all my phone contacts, wifi passwords etc.. to their servers for "backup reasons".






756  Other / Off-topic / Re: IOS VS ANDROID on: May 15, 2015, 09:00:10 PM
Neither. I use CyanogenMod, without proprietary Gapps installed.
757  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I googled: "The Times 0(...)" and it completed the sentence... on: May 15, 2015, 08:53:39 PM
when you use a not profiled motor ... you have  Grin neutral search.

try https://duckduckgo.com/  Wink

+1

Been using it for about 9 months now. Only use Google when I'm really struggling to find something unusual, which is rare. DuckDuckGo normally finds my queries.

758  Other / Off-topic / Re: Encrypting your Laptop Data after Closing the lid on: May 15, 2015, 08:44:51 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software
759  Other / Politics & Society / Re: David Cameron plans to allow police to vet anyone's internet communications on: May 15, 2015, 08:17:02 PM
"if you have have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."

Someone said something like that to me once when the topic came up over surveillance. I swifty asked them if they drew their curtains at night. They replied with a yes. I accused them of doing something illegal, because they must be because they are trying to hide something.
They quickly shut up.
760  Other / Off-topic / Re: Thoughts on ubuntu phone. on: May 15, 2015, 02:24:55 PM
Can't see it making much of a dent in the mobile OS market to be honest.
I'm sticking with CyanogenMod.
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