hobbes

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by hobbes 14y ago
I agree. I tried some Hegel, who scored 0.18. Clearly broken. Schopenhauer got it right, where BlaBlaMeter gets it wrong: "If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will y
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by hobbes 14y ago
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flounder http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flounder#Verb (intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered. "He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked que
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by hobbes 15y ago
I thought the graphic element of "infographics" is supposed to make the information more digestible and understandable. This example makes it more difficult to digest by including superfluous elements that add nothing to the information, bu
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by hobbes 15y ago
1. The beach, where my 5-year old paddles in the water, is also the ocean floor. Can get fairly shallow.
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by hobbes 15y ago
I understand your point. Here are two more points: 1. We should remember that young kids have no idea that, while we are absent, we are sacrificing, providing and succeeding. To them, we are just absent. 2. Reading Dr. Suess and playing Leg
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by hobbes 15y ago
Your comment has the same balance and factual content as an editorial in the Sun.
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by hobbes 15y ago
They will be great when they finally allow their users to run cron jobs. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq?&keywords=cro...
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by hobbes 15y ago
I transferred my domain into Namecheap earlier this year, and the whois states "ENOM, INC."
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by hobbes 15y ago
"...I'm just fine. Depressed and exhausted, yes..." I can't decide if your post is a joke or if your lifestyle is the joke.
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by hobbes 15y ago
I'll let you have the last word, but regarding the expectation of interesting points, I would ask that you peruse Craig's publications. Not all of the journals would impress you, but some will: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/PageServe
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by hobbes 15y ago
1. It's ironic that you are asking us to invoke belief in a statement that is merely asserted and not demonstrated. 2. I agree that the issue won't be resolved by logic alone. However, based on Craig's previous debates, he will clearly defi
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by hobbes 15y ago
I'm being downvoted but Dawkin's fellow atheists have also criticised him on this matter: QUOTE "Some of Prof Dawkins’s contemporaries are not impressed. Dr Daniel Came, a philosophy lecturer and fellow atheist, from Worcester College, Oxfo
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by hobbes 15y ago
His treatment is indeed shallow, and he knows it. This is demonstrated by his unreasonable reasons for not debating William Lane Craig on this very issue: William Lane Craig, Richard Dawkins and the Empty Chair: http://www.youtube.com/wat
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by hobbes 15y ago
Add also Larry Wall. "Perl [is] a biblical reference to the "pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Accomplishments
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by hobbes 15y ago
It can't be totally anonymous, otherwise there's no way of enforcing the legal requirement to complete it. Each census form had a unique ID, which is obviously linked to your address as it was sent to you through the post.
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by hobbes 15y ago
What a desolate, barren worldview materialism is! In your view, wisdom is an illusion. So is peace. Are not these just specific neurotransmitter configurations? Nothing more. The only 'wisdom' that makes sense according to materialism is:
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by hobbes 15y ago
The very best make fewer errors.
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by hobbes 15y ago
>...one of the standard steps is to shift traffic off of one of the redundant routers in the primary EBS network to allow the upgrade to happen. The traffic shift was executed incorrectly... This supports the theory that between 50%-80%
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by hobbes 15y ago
Boilerplate.
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by hobbes 15y ago
Unless you're coding Duke Nukem Forever. ;)
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by hobbes 15y ago
Well, that approach worked fine for the evolution of complex life-forms.
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by hobbes 15y ago
Thanks for missing the point.
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by hobbes 15y ago
To be fair he pick out "popular" music as being disposable. It is surely indisputable that much popular music is produced with short-term profit rather than musical excellence in mind. That, I suggest, is disposable music. Is Britney Spears
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by hobbes 15y ago
To misquote Bob Dylan, "Beethoven could have written Mr. Tambourine Man. Dylan could not have written Fur Elise".
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by hobbes 16y ago
Just to add to the public thrashing of your comment.. My Estonian father-in-law was given 5 minutes notice to pack his bags at 5am, and taken to Chernobyl along with many other Estonians. He had no choice. He was not told where they were go
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by hobbes 16y ago
Pagination doesn't actually exist because (except for pdf's) there are no pages, only locations (see bottom of screen). Bookmarks mark locations, not pages.
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by hobbes 16y ago
Err, no. According to my worldview, it is preferable because it is real.
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by hobbes 16y ago
How do blind people get impressions of what we see with our eyes? They use touch, as well as the other senses. http://www.flickr.com/photos/78553575@N00/321522242/ What can be learned by a blind person touching an avatar on a computer scr
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by hobbes 16y ago
"Is playing a social game where you interact with other people any different than going out to a club or bar? Joining a bowling league? A cycling group? A health clubwhere you go to regular group exercise classes?" The article makes the dif