Comment Re:Fallacy (Score 1) 937
There was a survey published in Nature showing belief in God is dwindling among scientists....
There was a survey published in Nature showing belief in God is dwindling among scientists....
Typical theist baloney. Set up a false premise i.e. people have to have unquestioning belief in something and then argue therefrom.
Skeptics doesn't hold such a viewpoint. They work from evidence, not belief.
That's incorrect. Rational philosophies and even evolution provide non-theistic justifications for altruism.
It in fact looks now that altruism is a survival trait that is hard wired in the human brain through natural selection.
Lions that could survive the drought were those that adapted to hunt elephants
No. I never said that. IIRC while the pride that was learned & went on to prefer attack elephants prospered, other prides in the area suffered through the drought, but survived.
if you wipe out all your prey in your area
Lions weren't the only reason or even the most important one in the extinction of elephants in the pride's area. Humans reduced the elephant population to the point that they could be locally exterminated.
Pack animals predating much larger prey isn't a freak event. It has happened throughout time & all over the earth whenever a prey species has evolved to be much larger than the available predators. There may be a window in which the prey species is invulnerable but eventually pack animals will adapt to the available resource.
If 29 meter (terrestrial) carnivores ever existed, we would have seen some sign of them by now
The argument about committing crime being outlawed would be more convincing if basic copyright infringement were treated as a crime and was actually investigated and punished in some proportionate way by the authorities when it occurs. The reality is that copyright is in most cases a civil matter, which means that while the cumulative damage to a genuine victim can be significant, they are essentially responsible for their own protection, without any police or public prosecutors to help them the way a victim of say theft or fraud would have. And the costs of bringing an action to recover losses are disproportionate in most cases, because copyright infringement kills with a thousand cuts.
Also, we're talking about the EU. Everything your wrote about fair use doesn't apply here. We tend to have more specific exemptions to copyright in our national laws in Europe, often including certain special privileges for libraries because of their unique public service role, and that is the matter at hand.
I see. You're the kind that gets his jollies by engaging in futility. Great life you must be having there, I'll bet your parents are soo proud...
Snort. Really? First off, I never said it was & secondly, I had to modify the quote to get it to fit into a
Are you in the habit of going up to people and telling them things that they already know? Things like the sky is blue? Water is wet?
So? If the USG decides to ignore the treaties, like it did with the treaties it signed with the Indian nations during the 19th century, the space treaty will be meaningless.
The Space treaty may make it illegal but no sanctions are specified. If the USG depenalizes space homesteading and allows people to sell ressources brought back from space, the treaty will be dead. Prior examples: The treaties the USG signed & then ignored with Indian tribes during the 19th century.
Peeking at my profile, I see sniveler. Nope, France isn't communist.
There are so few who recognise the quote: Bravo.
I will have you know that I set it long ago when participating in a particular long forgotten thread on
As for it being number sticker wisdom, well given the length limitations on both number stickers &
As Churchill so astutely said: Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Democracy is far far from perfect, but the other systems are worse.
Not surprising. I've noticed that the people capable of belittling communism's crimes against humanity are very often incapable of normal rational thought.
Snort. 19th century oppression of women in psyciatric hospitals is not a valid counter-argument to me pointing out that no-one was condemned to an insane asylum in the US or condemned to prison with all their belongings confiscated by the government for merely daring to oppose the ruling party, so no, it's not like the Patriot act.
Attempting to use such a weak argument just shows that you have no better counter argument.
Get rid of your dictator and adopt a representative democracy and it will be over. Indeed, nobody could have thought it would go on this long.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"