And that answer is?Diedel wrote:I have asked in some OpenGL forum and got a good answer ...
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- Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:11 pm
- Forum: D2X-XL
- Topic: News on real-time shadows in D2X-XL and a call for help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3373
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:47 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Interesting test
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2091
And, of course, the concept of morale itself varies with different cultures, beliefs, etc, from person to person. Cutting off the hand of a thief would be immorale and cruel in some places, but accepted in others. Isn't morale the level of motivation within a group of people, and morals a group of ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:15 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: An Evolution Question
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8268
(4) supernatural without design. Something like a great supernatural sneeze could splatter across our cosmos and create things that somebody might mistakenly interpret as design (perhaps by mistakenly reasoning that natural processes cannot create them, so they must have been designed, or even beca...
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:50 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: An Evolution Question
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8268
Precisely. It's like asking whether Mt. Rushmore was formed by intelligent designers or by tools that can shape stone. If there is a creator, then natural processes may be among the tools the creator fashioned. Biological ID advocates needs to make up their mind whether the designer they're searchi...
- Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:11 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: An Evolution Question
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8268
Of course, this is true of all science, not just evolution. I mean, you just don't get it, do you? Every time science successfully makes a prediction, God falls back. Every time science successfully explains a phenomenon, God retreats. Occam's razor slices God right out of the equation. There's lit...
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:24 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Sounding the retreat...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3070
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:20 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Extremist Islam
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1710
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:29 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Extremist Islam
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1710
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:06 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Sounding the retreat...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3070
Re: Sounding the retreat...
As it turns out TB you are absolutelt correct. News this morning after the big "Lets pull out of Iraq and we can negotiate demoscammer win" we have from AQ is they have 12 thousand fighters willing to die with the destruction of the White House as their stated goal. When they do I hope it...
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:00 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Eliminate DRM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1778
...Shadow... you are wrong. Word! Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....or just about any Bowie record was definitely a complete album as were lots of stuff from the sixties and seventies! Most Bob Dylan recordings had a completeness to them, just because they weren't laid out in one easy to ...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:28 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Eliminate DRM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1778
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:33 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Eliminate DRM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1778
Hence why I buy cd's instead of downloading music. (Plus, the art of making a complete album is being lost in this age of only downloading singles.) The art of making a complete album was only ever really understood by the Alan Parsons' Project, Pink Floyd, and in one case, The Who. Most bands simp...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:05 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Minimum wage
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3836
Capitalism, by its very nature, will have people who are rich and those who are poor. The upside is that it is a matter of effort and skill, not arbitrary decisions by people who are the nth descendant of the country's founder, or exclusive to people who are the nth descendant of someone who did so...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:54 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Totalitarianism!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1935
The other odd thing is that I'm actually considering going into politics, possibly as a Member of Parliament, but I would be running as a conservative, and not a democrat. The National Party here, is the conservative side of things. Which country is this? Canada? If so, in which riding will you be ...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:52 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: submarines in ur base, wiretapping ur fibre optic cables
- Replies: 9
- Views: 954
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:53 am
- Forum: D2X-XL
- Topic: D2X-XL stable release is dead
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3436
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:09 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Totalitarianism!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1935
At the other end of the economic spectrum, a highly regulated system might conserve the environment, establish national health care, and eliminate poverty. But as we've learned from the Soviet system, extreme regulation can also lead to stagnation, sameness, and unhappiness. WOW did they just compa...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:25 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Totalitarianism!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1935
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:11 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Voting for first time
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3747
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:04 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Voting for first time
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3747
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:56 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Voting for first time
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3747
He was not the son of any God and thats the part thats sad. Prove it, since that's what you care about. I read your posts and I see that you are blindly refusing to acknowledge any unintuitive belief and blindly sticking to the stuff you can sense. While I have no problem with you doing that, I fin...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:22 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Voting for first time
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3747
Re: Voting for first time
An example is evolution being discussed in another post as being implausible, questionable, or difficult to believe. That kind of thinking in any school classroom is an outright danger to education. Why is it bad for education if what is taught is being questioned? Isn't that exactly what is needed...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:42 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: An Evolution Question
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8268
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:24 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: CEOs out of control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3714
Yeah, but with premiums and deductibles in the thousands, I'm not certain how useful it would be. Could someone please inform me as to the average costs of these big medical procedures? Heart/lung transplant is $135,000 to $250,000 No, not everyone needs a heart or lung transplant. But if you do it...
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:36 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: CEOs out of control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3714
Unless youre retarded, you'll stop paying for insurance if it costs more than the medications themselves. From the individual customer's perspective, most pay a LOT more than the cost of any doctor visits and medications they're on themselves. It's the catastrophic stuff that the non-retarded reali...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:49 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: CEOs out of control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3714
Sounds to me like the main problem with this situation is a lack of competition, allowing UHC to charge whatever they want and be unaccountable to their customers. Interestingly enough, that doesn't always happen. In Alberta (province directly east of mine) the auto insurance is mandatory (as it is...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:39 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: CEOs out of control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3714
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:57 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: CEOs out of control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3714
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:50 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: CEOs out of control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3714
It's not ethical to make a profit? It is neutral at best, and unethical when said profits are being gained through overly inflated prices. It's not ethical to charge what the market demands for services? What the market demands is partly affected by the current prices(along with supply/demand, infl...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:57 pm
- Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
- Topic: Upload your levels automatically ...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4616
Thanks for the hosting space, I just uploaded my Salt Mines level, although PD also hosts it.
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:42 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Black Day: S. 3930 passes into law.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3058
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:39 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Black Day: S. 3930 passes into law.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3058
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Truth (Just some thoughts...)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1644
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:44 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: \"Land of the Unfree\"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4962
Thanks.Genghis wrote:Shadowfury333 wrote:Just use http://www.bugmenot.com, no need to sign up.
As for the article, I'm not entirely surprised at the actions taken. When you consider that there has been quite a bit of violence with teenagers recently, it isn't particularily astonishing for the SS to investigate this one.
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:12 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: \"Land of the Unfree\"
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4962
Could you please get that in a place anyone can read without having to sign up.Grendel wrote:Here's a fine example of how things work..
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/38768.html
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:03 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Salman Rushdie: The left is clueless...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1206
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:52 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: My faith in society took a hit yesterday
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11580
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: My faith in society took a hit yesterday
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11580
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:47 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Drugs in schools (please tell me that mine is the exception)
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4887
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:51 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Drugs in schools (please tell me that mine is the exception)
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4887