Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[Goh Lip]

On 04/05/2011 08:26 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 5 April 2011 13:20, David Sanders<dsuzukisanders at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>> Ah, we're just using two different definitions of the same word, then.
>>> Many of the people I've spoken to about this, who call themselves Atheists,
>>> claim to know there is no God. I've, hence, been labelled an agnostic for
>>> telling everyone who claims to know either way that they're wrong :)
>
>> It would be bold indeed to say that one can "know" that there is no
>> god. However, based on the evidence thus far, one can say with some
>> assurance that if god is so utterly remote as a force or entity as
>> appears, believing or disbelieving in that remotely possible entity
>> has very little application. It is as statistically likely as the
>> sudden downpour of blue whales from the sky.
>
>
> Indeed. Claiming that a ridiculously infinitesimal chance counts as
> being able to say "But there's still a chance, right?" *as if that's
> actually practically meaningful* is just playing word games, not
> saying anything with any practical meaning that it would not be an
> error to take seriously.
>
> It is not practically meaningful, and taking it seriously in any way
> at all as if it were would indeed be an error.
>
> c.f. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/
>
>
> - d.
>


+1, nice. Good way to put it.

Fellow Infidel - Goh Lip

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