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Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]There was a particular paper warning of drastic acceleration of temperatures and melting ice in the very near future in Greenland that was based on erroneous data and when the data was corrected showed an opposite trend. They (the IPC) descided to leave the original fauly conclusion and data in as it "made the point better".[/quote] I think we can agree that political uses of scientific data should be heavily scrutinized, whether the organization using the data is the IPCC or t

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Reply to The liberal plan. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]So you want to replace Congress with a typical parliament? You might as well eliminate the Supreme Court as well.[/quote] You might try telling that to the British, who've been going in the opposite direction.

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Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]But his assessment of the underpinnings of evolution, the 3 gaps in evolution he described which cannot be closed, his mention of the genetic bottleneck, the Planck quote, his musings about how long humans have actually been here, etc. [/quote] Yeah, but he presents these like they're huge challenges to evolutionary biology that have gone unnoticed, or worse, have been suppressed. They're not. Most biologists are willing to accept that there are gaps between evolutionary theory

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Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]A lot of what is said here is quite good stuff and accurate, some is a little iffy, and some is downright weird or preposterous. But an interesting read nonetheless.[/quote] No, it's nonsense. And what isn't nonsense, isn't interesting. Many proponents of naturalism are willing to entertain the possibility of extra-terrestrial explanations for the origin of life. The evidence that's supposed to prime us to receive alternative theories to evolution consi

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Reply to Unit order of attacking in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

MoM is working with an outdated GUI where you have to cycle through your units. Elemental will most likely have a more modern selection system, so the game won't select units for you.

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Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Mondays thru Wednesdays, I'm usually a difference feminist, but on Thursdays and Fridays I like to put time in as an equalitarian (with erratic pro-androgyny tendencies). I keep my weekends flexible.[/quote] Fair enough. I'm the sort that disdains labels -- or uses them ironically -- while quoting trendy Frenchmen. [quote]That said, when the men in white suits come for me, they better come armed.[/quote] Well, if you're right, they'll be men in brown coats with

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Reply to Command and Conquer 4 open beta is up! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]I fully agree C&C Generals was a good game after ZH. I just wish the modding options were more flexible to make it a great game.[/quote] It's give and take. Generals was one of the easiest games to mod and has a couple of great ones.

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Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Yes. That was intentional. You can't be an existentialist if you feel your life is full of meaning. That's a true statement.[/quote] Erm, except that no, it's not. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Fanon, and Frankl, among others, disagree. Strongly. You're thinking of pessimism or nihilism, which often share existentialism's claims that the meaning of life or existence cannot be rationally found to have positive value (ie. meaning).

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Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.[/quote] Interestingly enough, later versions of that dictionary (and other dictionaries) exclude any mention of Left/Right. They also tend to distance themselves from talk of the 'merging' of state and industry and tend towards talk of state organization/control of industry. [quot

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Reply to James Cameron's Avatar in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Gee... I hope you don't go to see Star Wars... You may be awefully disappointed with all the environments which are a terrestrial forest (or a desert).[/quote] What exactly are you trying to suggest? [i]I[/i] wasn't awe-striken by Avatar. I was, the first time I watched Star Wars. There's not much room for argument. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that the difference is that Star Wars did what it did in an era in which no other film could come close (and wouldn't fo

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Reply to James Cameron's Avatar in Everything Else Sins Forums

Saw it, wasn't impressed. The story is shallow. The reviews which paint it as a colonial feel good movie are spot on. The visuals weren't all that impressive either. I think it's because much of the environment looked too similar to what might be expected from a terrestrial forest.

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