An oft-heard theme is that religion is necessary so that we can have morality. I’ve even had people say to me, “Since you are an atheist, what keeps you from murdering people since it doesn’t matter anyway?” That line of thought actually implies two things: Morality comes from religion Morality comes only from religion I’m [...]
Maybe I’m dense, and I’m certainly no economist, but I just don’t understand how creating more debt is supposed to fix our economy. I keep hearing how we have to force banks to extend credit so that we citizens can start buying things again and thus stimulate the economy. Now, maybe I’m wrong, but didn’t [...]
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An anonymous person posted a comment asking, “What are your reasons for abortion to be kept legal?” It’s such an important question that I’ve decided to dedicate an entire post to answering it. But before I begin I want to address one of his claims that: “Science has unambiguously determined when a new life begins, [...]
has_metadata is a stupidly simple plug-in that allows you to store information in a model that isn’t important enough for its own column or table. It uses a single column called metadata to store metadata attributes as XML. Unzip has_metadata into your vendor/plugins directory. Make sure your model’s table has a text column called metadata [...]
The technology is inevitable: computers will be able to think in the future. That’s not what I’m worried about. I’m worried that we humans won’t be able to handle it. Just think how difficult it has been for us to give blacks and women equal rights. We still haven’t been able to give gays equal [...]
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