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I don't think you'd be satisfied with the definitions of god left over, Which is why I specified "some combination of traits that could legitimately called God". Defining God as "the whole universe" isn't what I -- or most people, I believe -- would consider legitimate. I specif...

You motherfucker. My bad; I must have missed that at the time because I was looking at other posts. There's a lot of material in this thread, after all. The short version: God being omnipotent doesn't negate free will. It constrains our choices (we can't choose to ignore gravity and fly away, becau...

Plus, people can always come up with a new definition of god, some of which might not be disprovable. ...which is what I've been saying the entire time. I've never said that every definition of God is undisprovable, but only that you can't completely disprove the existence of God. There's some comb...

I'm not really sure about the rest of it, but I do know that in East Berlin, things were incredibly shitty. Supply shortages and the like. It got to the point where the US began doing air drops of food and clothing and toys and even, on Christmas, air-dropped wrapped Christmas presents to the peopl...

No, it's not equally irrational, because religion requires that you take time out of your day to do shit "Believing in God" and "being religious" aren't synonymous. Believing that an omnipotent, omniscient being exists but doesn't give a shit about us and so worshiping it is poi...

Probably because the woods are pretty big and buffs don't last forever.

Those don't mean anything, and the part where you explicitly avoid answering a single clarification I specifically asked for is fucking bullshit and the fact that so far the only definition you have provided for god is: "something that exists and is glagagle and herefuaf" So, apparently, ...

If you don't toss out sensory experiences, then they are evidence of the non-existence of any god. And yes, you can experience the presence or lack of god through your senses. If there were an omnipotent being who loved us, you could see the results of his actions, just like I can see the results o...

Stating that a deity exists or does not and that this negates the role of probability is a Frequentist position. That's not what I was saying at all. The fact that a coin toss landed on either heads or tails doesn't negate the fact that there's a 50% probability of either outcome. What I was saying...

They denied losing money on every PS3 sold. They're not, but that doesn't mean they aren't selling the PS3 at a loss. Everyone who buys a PS3 also buys PS3 games. Buying PS3 games puts money in Sony's pocket, regardless of who made the game, because of licensing fees and whatnot. Thus, selling PS3s...

It is completely impossible to prove that you are sitting on a chair while you are sitting on a chair. If you're a solipsist, maybe. If you want to toss out sensory experiences as evidence for things, then I don't know what to tell you. But that's neither here nor there in relation to God, because ...

Saying "I am sitting in a chair." Actually really means "It is very likely that I am sitting in a chair." No, it doesn't. If you said "I am sitting in a chair" and someone said "Wrong! You had a 0.01% chance of sitting on a stool instead, and that's what ended up ...

Saying that "it's very unlikely that God exists" is an agnostic statement. You leave open the chance, even if it's very small, that God exists. This is besides the fact that trying to apply probability to the existence of God is retarded. Seriously. How the hell do you judge a probability ...

Holy shit you guys fail at logic and philosophy. Tzor is right; strong atheism is just as illogical (in the sense that it's impossible to prove or disprove) as strong theism. "God must exist" (the position of the theist) and "God cannot exist" (the position of the atheist) are eq...

In fact, I just found this: Times Online interview with Sony Chairman and Group CEO Kazuo Hirai[/url]] It’s well known that Sony loses money on every PS3 it sells. Will that still be the case with the new machine? If you're just talking about the hardware alone, the quick answer is yes. That makes ...

Making everything a full round is a rather significant change. Well, that's sort of the hope. The question is whether or not it will actually do what we want, which is make casters less powerful without making them useless. That means that most area effect skills become the suck. I'm honestly okay ...

Here's a simple suggestion that I have no idea how well it would actually work. What if you just increase casting times? Seriously, bumping "one standard action" casting times to "one full round" casting times would have a pretty significant effect, wouldn't it? It would mean tha...

'If you're using open-sourced stuff and it doesn't work...' You fix it. That works alright if you have an in-house programming department with nothing better to do. At which point you're actually a software company writing proprietary software! Good times. I won't bother with the rest of the argume...

For a certain definition of "recently", I guess. That was three console generations and 15 years ago, man. It's been the status quo for a while.

My mom bought a PS3 to watch movies. And she does. But do they bother selling her games? No! This is part of the reason why the PS3 did so poorly. It was the cheapest blu-ray player on the market for quite some time (though I'm not sure if it still is anymore, with the recent price drop). The stand...

Jovian, you add nothing to this conversation. You didn't bother to actually digest the article and the technology involved in it, nor did you accept any of their marketing. I can pretty much guarantee that I understand the article and the technology it describes better than you do. Seriously. I wor...

When technology replaces jobs, new jobs become available that deal with that technology. And, at the same time, that technology makes whatever-it's-producing cheaper and thus more affordable to everyone. This doesn't do anything to console an auto worker who was replaced by a welding robot (you need...

I have to admit that I would be sad if Sony and Microsoft went the way of Nintendo. I was disappointed with Nintendo way back in the early 90's when they elected to censor Mortal Kombat, especially considering Sega didn't. I'd say games like RE4 and Eternal Darkness are outliers for Nintendo and th...

By making themselves more accessible to other audiences. This means lowering the costs of their consoles (which means lowering its capabilities), and making games that appeal to more people. This will mean ruining their images as ultra hardcore gaming monoliths among the coveted demographic, which i...

Saving money in IT? == Less jobs. Tell me what job this technology removes. Really, I'd love to hear it. All it does is keep an IT admin from having to remote boot a computer before remote accessing it. Incidentally, you mean "fewer" jobs, not "less". Fewer is used in reference ...