What is the basis of the theory of everything coming from nothing for no apparent reason?

Smooth152 · 2 days

I've had a few bad experiences with discussions with atheists on Reddit.

My appologies.

It usually turns into something that isn't productive.

We can't have that, now can we. Although I do caution you to ever so carefully examine what may at first sound like harsh critisim or slander. It may be a statement of tough love, a slap in the face trying to wake you.

Sometimes a quick trounce of everything you believe in might jolt you into dismembering what you believe in and reexamine your very foundations. I do it myself often, and find it enlightening - almost narvina like.

I myself am not attempting to be mean, but after reading through your post, there seems an uncalled for rigidity. I hope you realize that.

If there is not Supreme Being or a Prime Mover, what started the creation process?

We don't yet know. No one knows. Anyone who tells you different is lying. The brightest minds of all time are trying to dismantle and study the very fabric of existence, astronomers freely admit they haven't got a clue what 95% of the observable universe is. Some guy who can't read the test results of a particle accelerator or dial in a telescope is incredulous to think or say they have anything approaching a conclusive answer.

How does he know? Divine knowledge? Someone or something told him but not me? What about the janitor? He's got a different answer than this dude. He to was told by someone or something. Can either of their statements be verified? No. Waste of time.

"Goddidit" is a cop out; that doesn't tell us anything at all. Then how did god do it? That is something worth knowing. Even if there were a god unprovable, anything less is actually a waste of my time.

Everything in the universe is moved by something else. There is nothing that moves on it's own. Everything is the result of something else.

These are all presumptions. Please make a scientific argument to support these claims.

I think such claims without verification are unfounded. How did you come to these conclusions? You seem to take them with some certainty, but I'm quite full of doubt about it. I don't think I'm unreasonable about it, either.

Side note: Wikipedia "virtual particles". You'll find that solid matter pops in and out of existence all the time, and the effects can be measured. It actually happens. We can measure some of this through the Cassimir (sp?) effect. It's been repeated to death and measured every which way; with our current understanding of the universe, this remains conclusive.

This being the case, what is the scientific basis that says creation is a lone entity that started without something else?

This question is based on unfounded presumptions, and is thus invalid. It also fallaciously concludes that "science" has an answer in the first place, and that this answer is "creation is a lone entity that started without something else". As answered of your first question, this conclusion is invalid.

I believe in evolution, science, and everything else most atheist do about the creation of everything.

No, you don't. Otherwise you wouldn't be here, trying to have a discussion. Also, atheists don't "believe" evolution or science, we accept evolution and the scientific method. There is a difference. Belief is faith, acceptance is convergence. As you are about to prove, you don't accept the scientific method.

I don't believe God was created for the simple fact that there must be something that is eternal and un-created for existence to even happen. If there isn't an un-existed entity, then there was never a beginning, something everyone can disagree with.

Simple facts are never simple. This assertion of yours about god is, too, a presumption completely unfounded. You don't know the nature of your god any better than a janitor.

You demonstrate your denial of the scientific method because you accept an ILLOGICAL conclusion without evidence. If you accept causality, then your model of your god is divergent by being acausal.

AND WAIT A MINUTE! First you're all:

"what is the scientific basis that says creation is a lone entity that started without something else?"

And then you're like:

"simple fact that there must be something that is eternal and un-created for existence to even happen"

You realize you invalidated your own belief, right? Your god is a lone entity that started something without something else.

CthuluSleeps · 2 days

You don't have to speak to police in the United States, except you must truthfully identify yourself upon request.

You must comply and cooperate with an officer, but that does not include speaking.

If you do speak, you waive your right to silence. That means once you start talking, you can, at worst, be compelled by a judge to continue talking.

When you get pulled over, make sure your doors are locked and the windows are rolled up most of the way. You only need a crack to communicate. When you step out of the car, lock the door. If they ask to search your car, say no. It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide, you have your right to privacy. Declining his request is not probabable cause. Ultimately, he can still search your car, but then it's him putting his ass on the line.

When a cop shows up to your house, you can speak through the door until they ask you to open said door. At such time, step outside and close/lock the door behind you. Don't invite them in. If they ask, say no. If they ask to search your home, say no. It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide, you have your right to privacy. Declining his request is not probabable cause. Ultimately, he can still search your home, but then it's him putting his ass on the line.

It doesn't matter if you called them for help or they were called on you, police, even when helping you, have the power to arrest you. Treat them with extreme caution and don't volunteer information or waive your rights.

Panda_Bowl · 3 days

Also,

RAID 6: Basically a RAID 5 with an extra parity disk, you can lose 2 drives before the RAID fails instead of one.

RAID 10 - aka RAID 1 + 0, two sets of mirroring drives that are striping across the pairs; the stripes are mirrored.

RAID 50 - aka RAID 5 + 0, two RAID 5's striped.

RAID 51... How redundant do you want to get? How much money do you have?

Brojest · 3 days

Yeah, I had an account there for a few months. The first wave of bullshit, and I asked a moderator to delete my account for me. I don't have the time or patience for that bullshit.

Chaser_41 · 3 days

I autocross with the SCCA, and the S2000's are ass kickers. The Z wasn't built for that kind of high maneuverability. If you can take the Z out to a track, there you will see the car really shine. Bear in mind the Z is effectively a Japanese muscle car.

I own a 2007 350z and love the hell out of it. In 2007, if you wanted to go faster, you had to spend at least $44k on a Porche.

The previous years had an older engine that needed a redesign it recieved in 2007, and they also had feathering issues. I wouldn't buy anything older than 07.

EDIT: The Mazda RX-8 is in the same SCCA Autocross class as the Z. They too, are ass kickers in autocross, but the Z will blow them away on a track. If anyone tells you the rotary engine needs constant rebuilds, they're about 25 years out of date.

Also, consider the Audi TT. It's all wheel drive, and comes in manual. It's another car in this weight and power category that doesn't disappoint.

LittleToke · 4 days

An Operating System (OS) is an overloaded term. It means a couple things in the layman.

1) It refers to the kernel. This is a program - the master control. It is responsible for orchestrating much of the interaction between programs and hardware, and programs to programs. It's primary task is resource management. The kernel provides an abstraction between hardware, services, and your program. In this way, your programs don't have to be written specifically for every piece of comercial hardware that is available and compatible with your computer. Back in the days of Disk Operating System (DOS), a program was responsible for supporting every video card on the market. If it didn't support yours, you were shit outta luck. Today, your program says "Draw this thing to the screen!" to the abstraction and it "just" happens.

2) It refers to a suite of software that provides minimal functionality. For every computer and specialized piece of hardware, this can mean different things. For a desktop computer, this is, these days, a graphical interface, mouse and keyboard support, software installer management, and a browser. On a network router, it's a text command line interface...

What makes operating systems different? In the world of Linux, we see a lot of #2; All the distrobutions are built on top of the same kernel, but the bundled software is different, and configured different.

But what really makes an operating system different is #1, the kernel. Each is designed for different purposes, for different processors, for different jobs. There are realtime operating systems for industrial machines and medical equipment, where there are timing requirements and guarentees that need to be met, there are Monolithic kernels, where all the features of a kernel are in one big program; Windows 95 and 98 were like this. When the graphical interface crahed, it took the whole computer down with it. There are micro kernels, where components are in individual modules; modules can crash and can be reloaded, without taking down the rest of the system, or they can be unloaded, upgraded, and reloaded.

There are tiny operating systems that fit on things like vaccum cleaners and small toys, with little 4 and 8 bit processors, and there's no clear line between the OS and the software.

There are experimental operating systems called Exokernels, which the kernel only multiplexes the hardware, and nothing else. Every other component is a "normal" program.

And then there's everything in between. This is a huge area of research and this doesn't even scratch the surface.

TiAnnnnE · 4 days

Shitty.

schneider719 · 5 days

Italians eat pasta as a staple; it's a part of every meal.

If this life style sounds ok to you, then consider rice and beans. Dried beans, if you consider the crock pot suggestion. It doesn't get much cheaper than that. Make pilaf as the foundation to every meal, and add meat and vegetables on top of that.

The more you make from scratch, usually, the cheaper things will be. Bread, I don't know, but pasta, it's an easy way to cut down costs.

Buy in bulk. I buy rice by the 50 lb bag. I'd buy flour by the barrel, if I could find it. Resturaunt suppliers open to the public are the way to go. I would buy things with a long shelf life, like flour and sugar, in this manner. Don't buy the gigantic cans of tomatoes, for example; they'll spoil before you ever get through it. If you buy whole wheat flour or whole grain rice, refridgerate it. The oils you're buying, which is the healthy part, will go rancid with time and ambient temperatures.

I do recommend cod, tilapia, or Pacific (NEVER ATLANTIC) salmon filets in bulk packaging from these suppliers. Atlantic salmon is always farm raised and has huge heavy metal problems. The FDA recommends limiting your Atlantic salmon intake to 1 filet every 5 months, to be safe. But anyway, they're individually cut, packaged, and frozen. They're not as gross to handle as other meat.

Powdered milk rehydrated is the same thing as 2%. I've never noticed a difference. Buy in bulk if you can find it for the stupid cheap.

Hand crank pasta machines are where it's at. Make your own noodles and ravioli. Ice cream churns are also pretty cheap. Pick up "The Perfect Scoop". You'll never buy ice cream again.

Alton Brown will be your favorite TV chef who will teach you dead simple recipies, why you're doing what you're doing, and how to do it on the cheap. Everything in his kitchen (except the fire extinguisher) is a multi tasker.

You like beer? I like beer. I make my own. Better than anything you'll ever buy, even from a local micro-brew. It costs me less than $0.55 a bottle. 5 gallons will land you about 48-56 bottles. Startup costs will land you ~$200, but you'll pay that off by your third batch.

Crock pots? Pick up a tiny 1 quart model, make oat meal for breakfast.

Nutmeg is my secret weapon. I put it in eggs, almost all my breakfast foods, pies, muffins, and baked goods. Get a Microplane (by name), and get WHOLE nutmeg seeds. If you buy the preground stuff, you're actually throwing money away and wasting your time.

Cook on Saturday, and eat leftovers all week.

Freeze your bread. It'll last longer and thaws pretty quick. My fiancee and I can't eat a loaf fast enough, I don't know about you. If it doesn't say 100% Whole Wheat, it's not healthy for you; if it just says Whole Wheat, then it's only there for looks and flavor, most of it is enriched flower.

Salad. Lettuce is cheap, and you should be eating a salad every day anyway (we Americans eat way too much junk). Throw on a hand full of nuts and some dried fruit, make a dressing out of nuts and fresh citrius, and you'll wonder why you weren't doing this all the time already.

No soda. Drink water, or home brew. Tea is also good. Buy in bulk.

Yeesh, that's the food stuff. OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD...

Otherwise, CFL or LED lightbulbs are your friend. Turn off your computer. Even better, unplug anything that can be turned on with a remote. The circuitry that powers the remote control circuit takes electricty. An XBox 360 can consume 25 watts an hour turned off! So, TV, game consoles, stereos, and computers. Just plug them all into a power strip that's easy to access, pop it on when you get home and want to use it.

As said elsewhere in Frugal, put window tints on your window to cut AC costs. Get used to the heat in the summer; push the air out one window, and open another on the opposite side of the house to get a breeze. Wear warmer clothes in the winter. There's no reason you can't live comfortably at 68 deg F in the colder months.

Get a bicycle.

If you're buying a house, there's other tips. Let me know, I'll pour those out too.

TiAnnnnE · 5 days

I know safety has been discussed and you're considering a small used car, but I say if you're willing to consider some sort of motorized scooter, would you consider electric, or better yet, pedal powered? If you live in the hills, nevermind.

But anyway, science says pedal power is the most energy efficient means of human transport. Fixies are cheap, too, if you can stand them...

Shasne · 5 days

Science can show their work, and there is concensus among that work. Science is convergent, in that everyone will eventually agree on one answer.

Religious, as we know, are, at best, based on an assumption, or, in the common case, based on known fantasy (Let's take Hubbard's Scientology, for example). That completely discredits religion right there. There is only concensus on the surface; it's a farce. Take two people of the same church, and examine their belief structure, and you are sure to find divergence along the line of personal preference. Religion is divergent, where everyone is telling everyone else they're doing it wrong.

I don't 'believe' what scientists, tell me, I either accept or deny. Belief is wishing. I don't wish upon science. At worst, I'll deny, but I'm willing to accept as more supporting evidence and concensus converges on whatever given point. In other words, if at worst I deny scientific results, I am quite willing to change my mind in an instant. Try getting the religious to do that...

bryce1234 · 5 days

In an infinite universe, rare events occur all the time.

secaedelcielo · 5 days

The phone system is a computer network. Just like a computer network, there is routing information associated with each packet or at least in the configuration of the switch. Where my knowledge is lacking and the phone systems diverge is I don't know if the switch is configured first, and then the data is transmitted, or if routing information goes along each packet.

Needless to say, if the phone network can connect A to B, and they can associate A and B with the appropriate billing information, they know who owns the connection, when they connected, and who recieved the call.

And this isn't like the old days with analog switches or stupid wire tapping laws. You're not going to hear clicks, and it doesn't take minutes to trace a call. That doesn't mean there aren't tricks used to obscure the source of a call or the caller.

VoIP is over the internet, and that's a different ball game.

BiscuitMiscuit · 8 days

To utilize multiple cores, your data, algorithms, and responsibilities in a program need to be disjoint.

That is to say, the elements of data being computed need to be in groupings independent of all others. So each bundle of data can be computed independently of each other group. In contrast, if the next calculation depends on the results of the previous calculation, you can't perform both at the same time.

Going deeper, if your algorithm has multiple independent calculations, you can take advantage of multiple processing. So if you had (x * y) / (a + b), then the multiplication and addition operations can happen in parallel. This isn't always worth it, because depending on your concurrency model, it might take longer to communicate across nodes the work to be done than it would be to just do it in serial on one processor. We call this overhead, and it's expensive. It also sucks.

Programs are often organized into logical units of responsibility. A program that utilizes a garbage collector, for example, can run the garbage collector on a separate thread of execution, independent of the business behaviors of the program, as their jobs never have to cross paths, directly.

Multiple threads do eventually need to communicate with one another, and the best models of communication coordinate reading and writing such that these two behaviors don't overlap. It's very bad when you're in the middle of fetching information, and it's changing in situ. The reader and writer have no way of knowing their behavior is overlapping. In situations this cooridnation isn't perfect, there are locks, a mechanism to enforce readers and writers take turns. This sucks because if the resource is in use, you have to wait.

There are plenty of "concurrency models" out there, I say Wikipedia them up and get a more in depth view on what's out there. There's sharing between cores, between processors, between nodes on a fabric or some sort of network, there is distributed processing over the internet, transactional processing... Each has their costs and benefits.

Also, there are just some problems that are more parallel than others. The best are "embarassingly parallel", and that's actually a technical term. Others, like a text editor, are inheriently serial.

Tibulski · 8 days

The point of the juice is to get you to eat the fruit. Plants evolved sugary fruit and hard seeds to they could use intestinal tracts of animals as a means of seed distrobution. Our anatomy has also evolved to take advantage of fruit.

What makes a single orange healthier than any given amount of orange juce, even with pulp, is the fiber.

Cartesiana · 9 days

It is a knife hone. The high edges will keep the biggest blades straight, and the substantial room below the wires allow you to be sloppy with running the knife through. It's not a sharpener because that's spring steel, needed to give you that huge amount of play.

Drag the blad handle to tip, all the way from the back until the knife is out. You only need to press down enough for the wires to bed a little bit, so that you know you have good contact.

This looks like a professional kitchen model, used in restaurants, where they're looking for a few hurried pulls. It should probably be mounted somewhere.

Hone your knives before every use. 6 pulls should be enough.

zaiker · 9 days

The battery technology is insufficient. They don't discharge fast enough, take too long to charge, can't dissipate heat fast enough, they're heavy for their energy density, and the anode and cathode both wear out too quickly.

There are electric cars available, but they're mostly a novelty and have limited ranges. They're commuter cars that will go 80 miles in a day and take all night to recharge from a home outlet.

Top Gear did a demo of a couple electric sports cars; I forget what they were but they look like a Lotus. The problem they kept running into were the batteries and electric motors overheating, and they complained about the range.

Super capicators are a promising future. They charge in a couple minutes, should last for a couple hundred miles, handle heat well, discharge quickly, and aren't terribly heavy. The annode/cathode problem still exists, though...

kegman83 · 9 days

But there is the stipulation! The power behind that clause following the "and". I don't like it any more than you do, but it's right there. The law of the bible says punishment is only applicable if you are discovered in situ, with the girl, hence the "they".

Once again: "...and they are discovered..."

If that wasn't there, this discussion wouldn't be happening. This line isn't just redundant, it has meaning.

ajhawar32 · 9 days

The difference lies in their abstractions. I kind of agree with Paul Graham on this one. There are about 9 of them, depending on who you ask. Every programming language has some combination of these, and if you have all of them, your language is a Lisp.

kegman83 · 9 days

and lay hold on her

That doesn't suggest a rape has occured? Quite an appologetic interpretation.

This single line in the Bible has probably saved more horny girls lives throughout history than any other single scripture.

We're talking about rape and you're blaming the victim? Fewer women wouldn't be raped if they didn't dress so seductive? When she says no she means yes?

I've heard shit like this from others before. Congratulations, you are nothing but filth.

kegman83 · 9 days

Yes, it is ok in the bible, provided you don't get caught.

pickledinevil · 10 days

I don't think bios would be appropriate. As was explained to me by a guy who used to make circuits on silicon, a dumbed down version is that logic and storage are all in the same place, and you can damage the logic part during a bad write. When that happens, you'd have to connect the chip to a JTAG reader, and rebuild the sectors that control the logic.

It was totally our driver, not sub par storage devices.

kegman83 · 10 days

Watch me, and take notes:

There are vile lines in the bible. The bible is also supposed to be the flawless, infalliable work and word of god. That makes the bible vile as a whole.

The bible says it's ok to rape women so long as you don't get caught, and Christians accept the bible as their infalliable book. This is why I am not a Christian, and I don't care for Christians to even occupy the same room as my children, they might rape them, if they thought they wouldn't get caught...

naturallyselected007 · 10 days

I guess what I'm saying is, has anyone taken this stance on "arguing" with a theist, and how has it worked?

I've had this talk with my own family. I don't advertise my beliefs, but I don't keep them secret, either. They have to come to me, they have to ask me. Because, in the end, I don't give a shit what they think or what they think of me. They don't have to like it, and I would never ask them to.

This puts me on the moral high ground. They have no right to get offended by what I tell them, because I didn't push, they asked. If they want to interrupt my explaination, rant, or accuse, that is my que to tap out. I don't have to listen to their shit, either.

If they don't like what they're hearing, they can be reminded, or accused, that this conversation wouldn't unfold so negatively if I instead proclaimed I were buddhist. I would be dismissed as a novelty. Of course you find this disagreeable, we're diametrically opposed in our opinions, you knew that before you even asked me...

In all, any negative reaction is their fault and their problem. This makes me come off as a pompus asshole, but it's also true. I deliver this discussion as light hearted and dismissive, as in, my opinions are entirely without value and uninteresting. Hence, why they have to come to me.

Instead of 'preaching' your beliefs and explaining why the theist is wrong, why not ask them what they believe, show true interest, and just have them explain it to you...

Because I know what they have to say, and I'm not in the slightest interested in hearing their pre-digested pesudo-Christian boring crap they repeat without understanding. And I'm not invested in making them better Christians.

I feel you can bring out the true skeptic in everyone by doing this... It has opened my wife up to all sorts of research and knowledge, but I'm not sure if it's because the way I went about it, or the fact that she started out with a respect for me just because of our relationship...

I'm glad this has worked out for you. I suppose, the point you're trying to get across is someone you're invested in, you're willing to make some sort of effort.

I dunno how I feel about that. I'm not in the business in convincing anyone of just about anything; I accept my friends and family for who they are. For those people who are around me, there is a profound mutual respect from this.

Also, arguing with a theist is dodgy at best, in your situation, and often a waste of time if you don't have clear and reasonable goals. The best you can hope for is a mutual understanding, by answering questions. Be careful, though, as you are not trying the impossible and converting them, and don't allow them to preach.

For those who would denouce me, I remind them of two things. 1) Fuck you. and 2) the family creed: "You need me more than I need you."

kegman83 · 10 days

...and they are discovered...

You guys are discussing the value of a shekel, and no one has noticed RAPE IS OK BY THE BIBLE SO LONG AS YOU DON'T GET CAUGHT?!?

QdwachMD · 10 days

Different file systems are different means of cataloguing the contents of your data. Different systems have different compromises. There are file systems for floppy disks, optical media like CDs, magnetic tape, for HUGE storage media in the Petabyte or Exabyte scale, for file systems that will store lots of small files, for lots of large files, for files that change in size frequently...

Each one serves a particular need. There's a right tool for every job. No one can do it all, as there are assumptions that have to be made, or limitations imposed by the storage medium.

Also, consider the history. Storage media have come and gone over the years, and new file systems have had to be developed to meet their needs.

There's also built in utility in some of the more recent file systems (and older systems that were ahead of their time). These include security, redundancy, error recovery, fail over, backup, versioning history, and synchronization. You can either build these utilities on top of older file systems, or, sometimes, for the sake of speed or security or whatever, it's easier or better to bake it right in.

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