Why I hate Windows Vista (and can’t wait to re-install XP)
To quote Niklaus Wirth:
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
Zealots gain the upper hand
The surge of religiosity in the US continues unabated. A survey from NEWSWEEK is the current cause of distress – apparently over 90% of Americans profess to be religious, and almost half reject the findings of science. Alarmingly, 35% of college graduates (the most educated of Americans) accept the bible as fact and believe that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Wiki Royale with Cheese
For the edification of the collective attentionstream, I have decided to quote for you the ineffable value additions and polysyllabic formulations of the “System One” post-microchunked formats - with a translation.
“Our services strategically develop your organization’s knowledge as a production factor in order to make optimal use of it. The core of our service portfolio is [...]
From Derek…
Do you suppose silicon based life forms construct computers from carbon and then agonize over whether they will become intelligent?
A 100% crime detection and solving rate is clearly not compatible with most people’s notions of civil liberty. This implies that there are certain types and levels of crime that we are tacitly prepared to tolerate. [...]
On God and other weird ideas
I subscribe to the idea that religion is a kind of dangerous but eradicable kind of cultural virus.
If people give in to the temptation of the aesthetic criterion for truth, then Science should not blame itself for the continued existence of Religion. People are not yet strong enough for the “truth”. The problem still remains [...]
So much froth
Your unfounded beliefs are the reason why my unfounded opinions seem jaundiced.
If you don’t have unpallatable ideas, what does that say about you?
Self reliance is not synonymous with Fascism.
The purpose of speech is to cause increased activity in certain conceptually specific regions of the listener’s brain. Does this imply that the command is the basic [...]
M. C. Escher was not a genius, he just had a steady hand. Perhaps that is a form of genius?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )An aesthetic criterion for truth (believing in what appeals to your sense of harmony or beauty, or believing because of moral dogma) is a primitive, religious mentality that hampers progress. It was responsible for papal inquisitions. It was responsible for the “final solution to the Jewish question”, the stupidities of anti-creationism, belief in crop-circles, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mulder and Sculley
Just when we thought we were on the way to a new age of enlightenment and reason, along comes the X-files and makes gullibility fashionable again.
The truth is always available. Choosing not to believe the truth when the truth is obvious or verifiable is intellectual suicide. Just because Mulder and Scully are snappy dressers, good-looking [...]
New age mysticism is a negative force in society, because it is turning people towards an aesthetic criterion for truth, rather than an objective one.
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