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 Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:09 am
The problem with making a piece of music without a time signature is that every "measure" must be edited individually.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:08 am
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:21 pm
For now, have an e-puppy! wink 
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:15 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:57 am
How can you not love that puppy, though...
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:31 pm
My laptop got hacked somehow. I've traced it to a gaminggutter user named tanarif984 who goes after Gaia accounts. Now my laptop is ******** because of this site scream
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:26 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_manI have, in actually, given serious thought to why I am an atheist. To paraphrase James Randi, I'm willing to give up certain fantasies that might be comforting in order to live in a real world.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:19 pm
Waveform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_manI have, in actually, given serious thought to why I am an atheist. To paraphrase James Randi, I'm willing to give up certain fantasies that might be comforting in order to live in a real world. Then what is the real world?? confused
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:29 am
Not to butt-in... but, probably a world where Seas don't simply 'part', etc. It's really a hard thing to scientifically grasp when there's not much scientific proof of such things to happen. Or is there? twisted
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:56 am
Sauce Block Not to butt-in... but, probably a world where Seas don't simply 'part', etc. It's really a hard thing to scientifically grasp when there's not much scientific proof of such things to happen. Or is there? twisted The Simpsons explained it perfectly. All you got to do is flush all the nearby toilets simultaneously, and the water drains away.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:56 pm
In today's episode of Misadventures with a Blender:
Too Much Peanut Butter
I'm never listening to that girl again.
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:11 pm
Reality, to me, is a place where principles exist called logic and reasoning. There is no place for faith in science. Layra-chan In today's episode of Misadventures with a Blender: Too Much Peanut ButterI'm never listening to that girl again. That was predictable. What were you trying to make?
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:28 pm
Waveform Reality, to me, is a place where principles exist called logic and reasoning. There is no place for faith in science. Layra-chan In today's episode of Misadventures with a Blender: Too Much Peanut ButterI'm never listening to that girl again. That was predictable. What were you trying to make? We were hoping to make a smoothie. A fruit smoothie. But then she suggested that we should try to make a peanut butter and banana smoothie. And we, being stupid college students, thought that that didn't sound like a bad idea. But we'd already dumped two bananas and an orange in, so it was going to end up being a peanut butter, orange and banana smoothie. She said it would be okay. So we go into the dining hall to get some milk, yogurt and peanut butter, but were intercepted by one of the dining hall staff. She led us into the kitchen, got out a big tub/bucket thing of peanut butter, put a glove on, and scooped out a huge handful of peanut butter (it was more like two or three handfuls). Our blender almost burnt out when we tried to blend it. And the resulting stuff was thick as hell, and the sour/citrus-y orange made it taste like the peanut butter had gone bad. Absolutely disgusting, and I had to wash the blender afterwards. Icks. In other news, logic and reasoning alone aren't nearly enough to disprove the existence of a deity. Science is based on several unfounded beliefs that no one bothers to question. But that's all right, it's built so that any mistakes it makes it can correct in a matter of centuries.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:28 am
Layra-chan Waveform Reality, to me, is a place where principles exist called logic and reasoning. There is no place for faith in science. Layra-chan In today's episode of Misadventures with a Blender: Too Much Peanut ButterI'm never listening to that girl again. That was predictable. What were you trying to make? We were hoping to make a smoothie. A fruit smoothie. But then she suggested that we should try to make a peanut butter and banana smoothie. And we, being stupid college students, thought that that didn't sound like a bad idea. But we'd already dumped two bananas and an orange in, so it was going to end up being a peanut butter, orange and banana smoothie. She said it would be okay. So we go into the dining hall to get some milk, yogurt and peanut butter, but were intercepted by one of the dining hall staff. She led us into the kitchen, got out a big tub/bucket thing of peanut butter, put a glove on, and scooped out a huge handful of peanut butter (it was more like two or three handfuls). Our blender almost burnt out when we tried to blend it. And the resulting stuff was thick as hell, and the sour/citrus-y orange made it taste like the peanut butter had gone bad. Absolutely disgusting, and I had to wash the blender afterwards. Icks. In other news, logic and reasoning alone aren't nearly enough to disprove the existence of a deity. Science is based on several unfounded beliefs that no one bothers to question. But that's all right, it's built so that any mistakes it makes it can correct in a matter of centuries. Science is based upon tested truths. I'm not going to put my faith in something I can't test. The "existence of God", or any other fantastic idea is not provable or disprovable. It comes down to belief, and looking at the evidence, there are other conclusions I can come to about the earth which seem much more obvious and reasonable to me. It is important to note that because something cannot be disproven that lack of proof does not prove anything in and of itself. In short, science can't prove there is no god, but equally, you can't prove there is one. All any claim needs is one shred of irrefutable evidence, but so far nobody seems to be able to produce any such evidence for the existence of the christian god, intelligent extraterrestial life, ghosts, unicorns, or the damn boogeyman. It's more than I can say for christianity, which changes only when convenient(and whose followers cherry-pick the bible to fit their prejudices). It is unfair to compare religion and science, as they are not ideological peers in any sense of the word.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:51 am
I wasn't comparing religion and science, but theism and atheism, both of which are religious stances. There are scientists who are also Christians, after all, and there are atheists who couldn't form a hypothesis to save their lives. I know several in either category.
Anyway, science is based on several assumptions that I personally find somewhat extreme:
Determinism: same circumstances will yield same results
Extrapolability: similar circumstances will yield similar results
Uniformitarianism: the laws do not change through time
Isotropy: the laws do not change through space
I find the second assumption to be a very big one, considering the existence of purely chaotic systems, and the first assumption is under fire thanks to observations from quantum mechanical systems.
None of these are actually reparable or exactly deadly for science, but they are unfounded assumptions nonetheless. Any justification of science, usually via the "science works" argument, assumes that science is applicable to begin with.
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