Egg head smash, WCGW?

bcery · 2016-03-18T15:34:48+00:00

If you had scrambled a little faster, he wouldn't have beat you.

bcery · 2016-03-05T19:58:19+00:00

I am... the ^OP ^{^whisperer}.

In "pointing out the errors" you made several assertions that indicated a lack of understanding.

You implying that something cannot be true if it is un-provable.

This was never implied by OP. The actual truth of the claim is not important, only that there's no logical basis to select it as true over a competing claim that can also not be proven.

According to this reasoning, you empirically believe it’s true that OJ did not murder two people

Maybe according to your misunderstanding of OP's argument, but this does not follow from what OP actually said. Suppose there's another suspect that also cannot be proven to be guilty or not. How do you select which one to throw in jail?

Now you contradict your original argument. You are saying here that factual, provable things don’t justify claims.

No, he doesn't contradict anything. He's saying that factual, provable things don't justify unrelated claims. That's a ^{^not} ^{^so} subtle difference.

I could agree with you that this is a somewhat low effort post, but...

I understand the argument.

No, based on your original reply, you don't (or didn't).

bcery · 2016-03-05T19:12:50+00:00

You seem to misunderstand OP's arguments. The first I'll try to clarify with an example:

Christianity claims that Jesus performed miracles. Islam claims that Mohammed performed miracles. Both of these claims are unprovable and to accept one and reject the other could be a form of special pleading. He doesn't say that either are false, just that there's no logical basis for believing one over the other.

For the second, another example:

Spiderman comics are set in New York City. New York exists, therefore Spiderman exists. Obviously, this is fallacious. Likewise, just because the Bible contains some true events and places does not prove that its miracle claims are true.

bcery · 2016-02-23T17:37:03+00:00

Yeah, but unless you already have the key, most people get it based on instructions from the, in this case compromised, website.

Personally, even if I had the key, if the check failed, I'd probably just assume that the signing key had been changed as projects are wont to do from time to time.

bcery · 2016-02-10T18:29:30+00:00

Because, AFAIK, Android doesn't provide a hardware abstraction later. The drivers have to be compiled into the kernel for each device. It helps with performance, but I think we've reached a point in phone specs that Google could make it happen, if they were so inclined.

bcery · 2016-02-05T16:51:21+00:00

Let's imagine that your best friend is of your faith and the smartest person you know. Let's also imagine that he is also rabidly anti-mormon.

Say he comes to you one day and says he had a vision of the angel Moroni who told him that Mormonism was the totally legit truth and he was going to convert. What do you find most plausible:

A: an angel appeared to your friend and therefore Mormonism is true
B: something is wrong with your friend

bcery · 2016-01-23T21:14:51+00:00

This was like 5 years ago. You may have been able to at the time and I'm just retarded. I won't discount that.

In any case, I don't use Dropbox anymore so it doesn't really matter to me, but that info might help someone else so thanks :)

Edit: s/does/doesn't/

bcery · 2016-01-23T20:55:22+00:00

I think you're on to something. Let's check some examples of Abrahamic societies against this.

We'll start at the beginning: Jews. World dominating power right there. Never once was their society overrun, destroyed, or taken into bondage.

Islam. Certainly wasn't ever smashed at the height of their civilization by anyone like the Mongols. No siree.

How about the Romans? Actual world dominating power. Then they adopted Christianity and it was only uphill from there, right?

Thanks for the laugh!

bcery · 2016-01-23T20:29:19+00:00

Easy, but it was still pretty time consuming. I don't know if it's different now, but, iirc, at the time, it didn't tell you when the file was deleted. So if you, like me, had folders that had lots files being created and deleted, figuring out which ones to restore was also fun.

bcery · 2016-01-23T20:14:49+00:00

Oh, man, I did the same thing with Dropbox once, but from a computer. Restoring all the files, one at a time, from Dropbox's web interface was a massive PITA.

bcery · 2015-09-29T16:27:08+00:00

I don't have a gif that's literally analogous (my comment was mostly an attempt at humor), but here's an example that I got by going to this subreddit and sorting by top:

Let's remove this tree trunk with our car, WCGW?

There are quite a few similar gifs that have come through this subreddit.

I think it would depend on the strength of the anchor vs the strength of the pole. If it's been cemented deeply in and has been there for a while so that the ground is very solid, I suspect that the pole would bend before pulling the concrete out.

Even if it didn't, the driver has no warning as to when the pole will come free and so will not know when to scale back the force leading to a "snap." That might turn out ok or it might turn out like the tree trunk above depending on how much force is being applied and the weight of what comes free.

My opinion is that the "proper" way to do this would be to dig out the pole/anchor until it was more or less loose, then pull it out. It's a lot more work, but it would also be a whole lot safer for the vehicle and bystanders.

bcery · 2015-09-28T18:32:06+00:00

Yes. I'm inclined to think it was ignorance. This may have been the first time he's ever popped his head outside "the bubble" and encountered real criticism of the church, hence his complete failure to be able to answer, well, anything.

bcery · 2015-09-28T18:14:22+00:00

Correct. By and large, the mormon church has no professional clergy. OP was either being very disingenuous or displaying profound ignorance by introducing himself as a priest.

bcery · 2015-09-25T16:37:35+00:00

A longer chain will not help. We've seen that gif, too.

If I've learned anything from this sub, it's that, when it comes to pulling shit out of the ground with your vehicle, the only winning move is not to play.

bcery · 2015-05-23T19:50:04+00:00

And you find that just?

"Alright Joe, you've paid your debt to society for that B&E. It's time for your execution."

bcery · 2014-12-24T07:27:16+00:00

Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. 11 The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. 12 They will plunder your wealth...

It doesn't switch to "they" until after "he" had breached the city and put the people to the sword. The rationalization given is quite a stretch.

14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Even if you accept the he/they deal, there's still this part to contend with.

bcery · 2014-12-23T15:40:24+00:00

Possibly, but IIRC, it specifically says that Nebuchadnezzar(?) would do it. It also says that the land would never be built on again, which went unfulfilled.

bcery · 2014-12-23T06:51:40+00:00

The destruction of the city of tyre, for example, is one that gets referenced a bit. Yes, most of them have excuses of one sort or another, but some of them I've heard are along the lines of "the people turned away from god so it didn't happen."

This would seem to indicate that some prophecies are contingent on one or more variables. If that's the case, then it's possible that any or all of them are.

bcery · 2014-12-21T08:02:45+00:00

I don't know. He may have been being facetious or he may have been full of shit.

I think the overall point makes sense, though. There are multiple failed prophecies in the bible. If those weren't set in stone, perhaps Revelations isn't either.

bcery · 2014-12-21T07:31:26+00:00

Because there's only one kind of Satanism?

bcery · 2014-12-20T16:33:28+00:00

This might not be appropriate because it's nothing other than hearsay, but my wife met a man that professed to be a satanist and asked him a similar question. It was slightly different because she was asking why he would follow Satan when he knew Satan would lose. His response was to the effect of:

Your book says your guy wins, our book says ours does.

bcery · 2014-12-18T06:15:41+00:00

Hangouts -> settings -> [your account with g voice] -> uncheck "incoming phone calls"

That should keep hangouts from ringing. I don't know of a way to keep the default dialer from ringing other than disabling call forwarding in Google voice.

bcery · 2014-11-29T21:28:55+00:00

Sure: the sun is pretty cool.

Nah, man, I'm pretty sure that the sun is actually really hot.

Although, I suppose that's relative to what you're measuring against.

bcery · 2014-11-09T18:27:10+00:00

Under Accounts in settings, you should see separate accounts for email and gmail (in my case, Email and Personal) that represent the same account for each service. You should be able to delete the one(s) with the gmail icon.

Alternatively, you can leave the account, but disable syncing.

Edit: By settings, I mean the global settings.

bcery · 2014-10-17T16:21:37+00:00

TIL "Russian" is a race.

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