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It's been rumored for a while that Microsoft's Kinect would cost $150. While Microsoft and some analysts have said that it would cost less, all of the evidence seems to be pointing to the contrary. Today the price of Kinect was apparently leaked onto Microsoft's online store, and so all of the idiots around the world came out of the woodwork to bash "Microsoft's greed," "Microsoft's stupidity," or whatever else they want to call it.
Let me preface this by saying that I don't know if I'll be buying a Kinect when it comes out. I'm too cynical to believe that it will work as well in my living room as it did on stage during MS's press conference. I'm not an Xbox fanboy, either, especially since I bought my Xbox 360 about a year and a half ago. And I'm not a casual gamer, since I've been playing games since I was five and I've owned one or two consoles in every generation since the Super Nintendo.
Now, people's comments about Kinect's price are really pissing me off. I was reading Mr. Kennedy's article reporting the leak on the MS Store and some of the comments I read made me decide to write this. Mainly, the comment by DragonQuestIV saying that "Microsoft=Greed" and the one by TheGamingKid attempting to expand on Economics. Which he failed quite greatly at. A kid indeed.
Let's start with DQIV's (and many other's) comment, that Microsoft is greedy. Microsoft is a corporation. It's as simple as that. Their sole reason for existence is earning money and generating profit. Once the Red Cross or another NGO joins the console race then I'll begin to accept this comment and not become infuriated everytime I read it. Microsoft isn't greedy; neither is Nintendo nor Sony nor Apple. Wario is greedy. Microsoft isn't. Neither is Sony, even though they blatantly stated that the PSP Go would have a high price tag just because it was a new piece of hardware and therefore deserved a "premium".
How can people expect Microsoft to sell Kinect for cheap? If the price is $150 it won't actually be too bad. Some people's theory, including Mr. Kennedy's, is that Microsoft is gauging people's interest in Kinect before they announce a price. Fair enough, I can agree with that. But how can people expect them to sell it for $50, like some have been clamoring for?
Kinect has, just as basic functions, a camera and a microfone. Now I'm talking purely about hardware. There's significantly more in the thing, but let me remind you that both Microsoft's Xbox camera and Sony's EyeToy cost about $30-40, and a headset another $15-20. Now, onto the real heart of the beast, all of the black magic cutting-edge technology that MS has put into the thing. They've invested millions and millions of dollars of Research and Development into the thing. Do people seriously expect them to not try to recoup their losses? And if so, why? So you can enjoy playing Kinect for dirt-cheap? Who's being greedy now?
Kinect, regardless of how non-hardcore it is or how many lag issues it has right now still is a pretty damn new piece of technology. So stop crying.
Now, onto TheGamingKid's comment. I'm trying really, really hard to not make this a personal attack, but seriously, don't talk about things you don't understand. There are different mathematical equations that are used to calculate the optimal point between per-unit price and quantity sold in order to maximize profit. So don't go around making simplified generic blank statements. That goes for everyone (and sadly, there are many) who says that if something is cheaper more units will be sold and therefore more money will be made, and so Microsoft is stupid. This isn't so simple and isn't even completely true for RuneScape's economy. Seriously. Try following this train of thought the next time you have to sell potions/armor/epic mounts/whatever it is that people sell in WoW. You'll see it isn't quite that simple.
So please, everyone, quit your whining. $150 dollars is actually a decent price for an advanced piece of technology such as Kinect. It certainly isn't any more ludicrous than $250 for two GameCubes duct-taped together, $600 for an over-sized George Foreman Grill, or $400 for a ticking time-bomb.


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A solid defensive effort earned West Ham United a 0-0 Premier League draw against Manchester City at Upton Park.
The champions failed to find a breakthrough against an organised Hammers side who were well worth a point.
It could have been better for Sam Allardyce's men, but for a disputed offside decision that chalked off an early Kevin Nolan goal.
City never hit their stride, and there appeared to be friction between manager Roberto Mancini and Mario Balotelli when the Italian striker was taken off after a hit-and-miss display.
Although City remain unbeaten after 10 matches, they are third in the table behind Manchester United and Chelsea thanks to their fourth draw of the season. West Ham go eighth, and are easily the best-equipped of the promoted sides to stay up.
City have not scored in the first half of any away match since April 22, and although they dominated possession it was West Ham who created all the early chances.
Kevin Nolan had the ball in the net in the fourth minute, but had his chicken dance cut short by an offside flag; the replay suggested that the Hammers captain was very slightly offside.
Next came Mohamed Diame, scorer of a brilliant goal in a recent Saturday night game against Arsenal. The Senegal midfielder shimmed in from the left before blasting a powerful shot over from the edge of the box.
The impressive Yossi Benayoun then went close, meeting Matt Jarvis's cross with a sidefoot volley that pinged off the bar on its way over.
Then Andy Carroll went agonisingly close to his first West Ham goal, as he drove a low shot just wide from the edge of the box with Joe Hart rooted to the spot.
Despite failing to create clear-cut chances, City were far from overrun and it was no surprise to see them start to threaten West Ham.
Balotelli started and provided a typically moody, mercurial display. The Italian did well to reach a Carlos Tevez free-kick, but fired over with his outstretched right foot, and then hit an overhead kick wide.
Kolo Toure then found brother Yaya in space on the right side of the box but the midfielder, whose form has dipped of late, blazed his shot wide.
Mancini's half-time team talk failed to elicit the desired reaction, as it was again West Ham fashioning the better chances early in the second half. An unmarked Nolan headed wide, while Carroll saw an acrobatic overhead kick deflected wide.
As in the first period, City gradually took control but rarely troubled Jussi Jaaskelainen. Tevez fired over from the edge of the box when he should have hit the target, but otherwise this was a tale of City failing to convert possession and territory into goals or even goalscoring chances.
Mancini never looked likely to find the solution, and there was an air of resignation about the 84th minute substitution that saw the lively Tevez replaced by a holding midfielder, Javi Garcia. The injury suffered by James Milner in the warm-up, which kept him out of this game, will only darken Mancini's mood.
James Collins (West Ham) - The man at the heart of the Hammers defence put in a display that mixed cool-headed positional play with the occasional blood-and-guts challenge when required. Despite hobbling off on 84 minutes, he was immense.
WEST HAM: Jaaskelainen 7, O'Brien 7, Reid 7, McCartney 7, Collins 8, Jarvis 7, Nolan 6, Noble 6, Diame 7, Benayoun 7, Carroll 7. Subs: Spence N/A, O'Neil 6, Cole N/A.
MAN CITY: Hart 7, Kolo Toure 5, Kompany 7, Nastasic 6, Clichy 6, Yaya Toure 5, Nasri 6, Barry 6, Tevez 7, Dzeko 6, Balotelli 5. Subs: Sinclair N/A, Garcia N/A, Aguero 6.
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I was about to tell him he was wrong to dwell on it, because it really didn't matter. But he cut me off and urged me one last time, drawing himself up to his full height and asking me if I believed in God. I said no. He sat down indignantly. He said it was impossible; all men believed in God, even those who turn their backs on him. That was his belief, and if he were ever to doubt it, his life would become meaningless. 'Do you want my life to be meaningless?' he shouted. As far as I could see, it didn't have anything to do with me, and I told him so. But from across the table he had already thrust the crucifix in my face and was screaming irrationally, 'I am a Christian. I ask Him to forgive you for sins. How can you not believe that He suffered for you?' I was struck by how sincere he seemed, but I had had enough. It was getting hotter and hotter. As always, whenever I want to get rid of someone I'm not really listening to, I made it appear as if I agreed. To my surprise, he acted triumphant. 'You see, you see!' he said. 'You do believe, don't you, and you're going to place your trust in Him, aren't you?' Obviously, I again said no. He fell back in his chair.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
Alan Woods
No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Source: Work as Play
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?. . . Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?"
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The choir of the Saint Roch church which was started in 1653 and completed in 1754. It is located on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris and was pillaged during the Revolution.
Saint Roch church, Paris.
Saint Roch church, Paris, looking back towards the entrance showing the organ pipes above the door.
The Opera Garnier.
Imagine my surprise at seeing a 1967 Mustang in front of the Opera Garnier! It was being used to promote a new Diesel cologne. I spoke with the owner and learned that the car was originally owned by a US soldier and was used for racing at one time. I have no idea what the chicken was doing there.
This is the view from the rooftop terrace at the Galeries Lafayette. We came up here to get some air after the fashion show which was incredibly hot and stuffy.
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile.
Shops along the Champs-Élysées.
This was taken while walking to the Rodin Museum.
Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker", cast in 1902 and displayed in the Musée Rodin. It is meant to represent Dante and also appears in Rodin's "Gates of Hell" sculpture.
Tourists taking a break near the pond in the garden of the Rodin Museum in Paris. The central statue is "Ugolino and his children" and was created circa 1881. Driven crazy by hunger, Ugolino, Count of Gheradesca, devoured his dead children, a crime for which he was eternally damned.
The dome of the church at Les Invalides from the gardens of the Musée Rodin.
The entrance of the Église de la Madeleine.
"Baptism of Christ" by François Rude in the Église de la Madeleine, Paris.
Notre Dame de Paris from the left bank showing the south rose window.
Browsing the shelves at Shakespeare and Company.
The Pantheon was completed in 1790 and is the burial place for French national heroes.
Parisians doing what they do best - relaxing and enjoying life in the Luxembourg gardens.
The Luxembourg Palace, home of the French Senate.
The Chapel of the Virgin in the church of Saint Eustache, just north of Les Halles shopping centre.
Here we are in Verzenay beside the Moet & Chandon vineyards.
The vineyards of Veuve Cliquot in Verzenay, France. This is Grand Cru land that is among the finest in the world for growing grapes.
This machine trims the grass that grows between the rows of vines.
Frédérique Mouzon of Jean Claude Mouzon winery in Verzenay checks for sediment in the champagne. Our guide, Trong Nguyen interpreted for us.
Another bottle of champagne? Why not!? I'm not driving!
The Taittinger winery has 3 million bottles of wine stored in 16 km of caves. This niche stores 70,000 bottles, all moved by hand.
The choir of the cathedral of Reims.
The jamb statues to the right of the main portal of Reims Cathedral depict Mary visiting Elizabeth on the right and the annunciation with the angel Gabriel and Mary on the left.
Sampling macarons at Pierre Herme. These are pricy but the best around with my favourite flavour being sweet pea and mint. Of course I had to try quite a few to come up with a favourite...
L'Escargot Montorgueil opened in 1832, selling escargot and shellfish. It was converted to a restaurant in 1874 and is designated as a historical building. I had the classic parsley and garlic escargot which were excellent.
The patisserie Stohrer is the oldest bakery in France and has been at this location since 1730. The cherry tart I had was indescribably good!
The Passage des Jacobins houses a police station, offices and many shops, including an automobile dealership.
We celebrated our 26th anniversary with dinner at Guy Savoy. Chef Savoy came to our table to congratulate us personally whereupon my wife asked if we could take a photo. He enthusiastically agreed and invited us in to the kitchen to have it taken. The three Michelin star food was beyond description however, so was the price. It was a once in a lifetime experience.
You'll never guess what these are because I sure didn't recognize their name in French on the menu. If you guessed "bull's testicles" then you're right! They're actually delicious.
Monet's "Water Lillies" in the Musée de l'Orangerie. The paintings are beautifully displayed in two oval rooms under diffused, natural light. The museum also houses the exceptional Paul Guillaume collection of impressionist paintings.
The Code of Hammurabi in the Louvre dates back to 1700 BC. It specifies laws, punishments and how to deal with contract disputes.
The crowds that gather at the Mona Lisa can be daunting.
These are the lines for the elevators of the Eiffel Tower at 11:30 AM. It's much faster to climb the 670 stairs to the second level.
This is a Wallace fountain, financed by Richard Wallace and designed by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, that provides drinking water to thirsty Parisians and tourists. This one is located outside the entrance to the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
The girl in the centre was serenading us with some of Edith Piaf's most famous songs and doing an exceptional job.
The grave of Oscar Wilde has a placard on it asking people not to deface the memorial, but to no avail. It's covered with kisses and messages of gratitude from the thousands of people who visit it.
We had a picnic of fresh baguette, goat cheese and wine in Père Lachaise Cemetery. A wonderful lunch on our anniversary day.
The grave of Frederic Chopin in Père Lachaise Cemetery is very popular with visitors.
The grave of Gioachino Rossini, or "Signor Crescendo", in Père Lachaise Cemetery
The Eiffel Tower shot while crossing the Seine.
The iconic tower, done in an old-time film style.
The passerelle Debilly (Debilly bridge) is a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Seine not far from the Eiffel tower. You can see the Arc de Triomphe in the upper left.
The Duomo of Florence, started in 1296 and completed in 1436 with the addition of Brunelleschi's magnificent dome.
The interior of the dome of the Cathedral of Florence was decorated by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari. It was completed in 1579.
Climbing to the top of the Duomo in Florence, between the two layers of Brunelleschi's dome.
The view from the top of the Duomo of Florence. The Piazzale Michelangelo is visible in the top left; the tower of the Bargello is left centre; the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio is to the right. You can see the roof-top terrace of our hotel at the base of the Bargello tower.
The Duomo of Florence from the Boboli Gardens.
The Ponte Vecchio crosses the Arno River in Florence, lined with jewellery shops and tourists. The upper portion is part of the Vasari corridor that allowed the Medici family to walk from the Palazzo Pitti to the Palazzo Vecchio without having to see, or be seen by, the riff-raff.
The Arno River with the Ponte Vecchio at sunset from the Ponte alle Grazie.
The Ponte Vecchio is the oldest bridge in Florence and houses jewellery and souvenir shops. Above the shops runs the Vasari Corridor that connects the Palazzo Pitti and the Palazzo Vecchio. This allowed the Medici family to move from one palazzo to the other without having to step outside.
This is looking east towards the Ponte alle Grazie at sunset, walking along the Arno River. The Piazzale Michelangelo is the hill in the left third and if you look real close, you can see the bronze replica of David.
Florence sunset from the Piazzale Michelangelo. From left to right are the Palazzo Vecchio, the Duomo and Santa Croce
This is the replica David in bronze set in the Piazzale Michelangelo that overlooks Florence from the south side of the Arno river.
Florence at sunset from the Piazzale Michelangelo.
Florence sunset from the Piazzale Michelangelo.
The statue of Hercules and Cacus at the entrance to the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence. The statue was unveiled in 1534 to mixed reactions. Cellini claimed that Hercules' back resembled a "sack full of melons".
This panel from the "Gates of Paradise" east door of the baptistry of Florence depicts Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God. The doors are reproductions, replacing the originals completed by Ghiberti in 1452. The bust in the top right is a self portrait of Ghiberti.
This pillar in the lobby of the Grand Hotel Cavour in Florence shows the high water mark from the 1966 floods.
The Duomo of Pisa with the famous leaning bell tower in the background.
Everybody has to take the "holding up the tower" photo when in Pisa. I think it's the law.
The view from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa.
The Santa Maria della Spina Church, Pisa. Built in 1230 and moved to its present location in 1871. It housed a thorn supposedly from Jesus' crown of thorns, brought back by a crusader.
I did a significant amount of scientific research to determine the best gelato in Florence and my conclusion is that the best is found at Perche No! Their raspberry was fantastic, closely followed by their green tea.
Donatello's "David", circa 1440, is the first free-standing male nude statue since antiquity. It's in the Bargello.
The Etruscan "Chimera of Arezzo" was discovered in 1553 and is believed to have been cast around 400 BC. It's in the National Archaeological Museum in Florence.
This plaque in the Piazza del Signoria in Florence marks the spot where Girolamo Savonarola, the leader of the "Bonfire of the Vanities", was burned at the stake on May 23rd, 1498.
A replica of Michelangelo's David has been in the Piazza della Signoria since 1910.
These are the original statues that graced the facade of the church of Orsanmichele. They're now stored on the second floor and copies are in their original location. From left to right they are, St. John the Baptist by Lorenzo Ghiberti; Christ and St. Thomas by Andrea del Verrocchio; St. Luke by Giambologna. Each statue represents the patron saint of the guild who commissioned it.
The Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, contains the famous and influential frescoes painted by Masaccio and Masolino.
The line for the Accademia Gallery, home of Michelangelo's David, was enormous. And this is the line for those with reservations! We had the Firenze card so were admitted immediately with no lining up at all.
Legend has it that this image, called "L'Importuno", was carved by Michelangelo on the side of the Palazzo Vecchio. It's behind the statue of Hercules and Cacus, near the corner of the building.
The back of the Pitti Palace, from the Boboli Gardens.
The Grotta di Buontalenti in the Boboli gardens contains replicas of Michelangelo's Prisoners. The statue at the far back is "Paris and Helen" by Vincenzo de'Rossi.
This sculpture in the Boboli Gardens of Cosimo de Medici's court dwarf Morgante riding a tortoise is a copy of the original made by Valerio Cioli in 1564.
Someone has carved an image of Dante into the paving stones in front of the Dante House.
This is the Cathedral of Siena, looking back towards the nave from Nicola Pisano's pulpit. The black and white stripe motif represents the colours of the flag and coat of arms of Siena.
This marble pulpit in the Duomo of Siena was carved by Nicola Pisano in 1268.
The Piazza del Campo in Siena, home of the Palio di Siena horse race.
The Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio was built in 1494 as a meeting place for the 500 members of the Grand Council of Florence.


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Imagine a table with like a hundred of different columns in it. Imagine, then, that I have a user-data table from where I want to copy data to the base table. So I wrote this simple insert-select statement and this error pops up. So, what's the most elegant way to figure out which column raises the error?
My initial thoughts on the solution are about wrapping it in a transaction that I will ultimately rollback and use a sort of Divide and Conquer approach:
begin tran
insert into BaseTable (c1,c2,c3,...,cN)
select c1,c2,c3,...,cN
from UserTable
rollback tran
And this obviously fails. So we divide the column set in half like so:
begin tran
insert into BaseTable (c1,c2,c3,...,cK) --where K = N/2
select c1,c2,c3,...,cK --where K = N/2
from UserTable
rollback tran
And if it fails then the failing column is in the other half. And we continue the process, until we find the pesky column.
Anything more elegant than that?
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Jimmy Wayne's RV Burglarized in Arkansas; Now That's a Taste of Bum Life
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Jimmy Wayne, the Tennessee twang star who's in the process of walking from Nashville to Phoenix to raise awareness of homeless teens, got a tough lesson in hobo 101, when someone stole his clothes and some personal items out of the RV he has following him on his trip.
Hate to say we told ya so, but if Jimmy hadn't been carrying extra clothes with him -- that is, acting like a real bum -- he probably wouldn't be in this mess.
The clothes, which were stage clothes for when he leaves his trek to go perform a concert, were taken over the weekend as his RV sat in the parking lot of a Comfort Suites Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where Wayne's driver was spending the night.
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Deputy Secretary-General: Statements
New York, 25 September 2013 - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at High-Level Event organized by the Co-Authors of the Resolution on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) [as prepared for delivery]
I commend the seven co-authors of the Arms Trade Treaty resolution: Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya and the United Kingdom for bringing us together for this important event.
At the outset let me first of all say that our thoughts are with the people of Kenya. They cannot, as co-authors, be represented here today because of the horrific attacks in Nairobi. We share the shock and grief of the Kenyan people.
The journey towards the Arms Trade Treaty started with a simple but profound idea formulated almost two decades ago by a group of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
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Skip to comments.Why evolutionary materialism leads to the unreality of your existence
Posted on 07/28/2013 3:57:08 PM PDT by spirited irish
American Christian author Dr. Frank Turek notes that Cambridge-trained Ph.D. Stephen Meyer's New York Times best-seller, "Darwin's Doubt," is creating a major scientific controversy. Because Darwinists absolutely hate it, Meyer's well-reasoned argument that an intelligent designer is the best explanation for the evidence at hand elicits irrational accusations that Meyers is anti-scientific and guilty of endangering sexual freedom everywhere. (Darwin's Doubt, Turek, Townhall.com, July 09, 2013)
Meyer writes,
"Neo-Darwinism and the theory of intelligent design are not two different kinds of inquiry, as some critics have asserted. They are two different answers formulated using a similar logic and method of reasoning to the same question: 'What caused biological forms and the appearance of design in the history of life?'" (ibid.)
The real issue here is not "anti-scientific" intelligent design or for that matter, the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo ("special creation" as evolutionary materialists call it) versus "scientifically enlightened reason and science," but about creation account vs. anti-creation account (Darwinian materialism).
The reason Darwinists on one hand, and intelligent design and Genesis account proponents on the other, arrive at radically different answers is because Darwinists are neo-pagan materialists and the other two are not.
While intelligent design proponents are open to intelligent causes (just like crime scene investigators are), Genesis account creationists hold that our Creator, the living, personal Triune God, the Divine Source of life who exists outside of the space/time dimension is Jesus Christ, the angel who spoke with Moses at Sinai.
Foremost of His miracles is creation out of nothing six days of creation rather than the billions of years of evolutionary process out of already existing or spontaneously generated matter:
"The first moment of time is the moment of God's creative act and of creation's simultaneous coming to be." (Philosopher and New Testament scholar William Lane Craig, quoted in "If God created the universe, then who created God?' by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ministries International)
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." (Genesis 1:27)
As all men are the spiritual image-bearers of the Triune God, it logically follows that each male and female is a trinity of being of soul, spirit, and body:
"The essence of the human is not the body, but the soul. It is the soul alone that God made in his own image and the soul that he loves....For the sake of the soul...the Son of God came into the world...." (Incomplete Work on Matthew, Homily 25, Ancient Christian Devotional, Oden and Crosby, p. 153)
For fifteen hundred years, Christendom and then later Protestant America had followed St. Augustine (AD 354-430) in affirming that all men are three part spiritual image-bearers of the transcendent Triune God (Gen. 1:27). This unique view of man was affirmed by the brilliant French economist, statesman, and author Frederic Bastiat. Man as God's spiritual image-bearer is the precious gift from God, which includes the physical, intellectual, and moral life:
"He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. Life, faculties, production in other words, individuality, liberty, property this is man (and) these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." (Bastiat, "How Evil Works," David Kupelian, p. 8)
Vishal Mangalwadi, India's foremost Christian scholar, writes that this unique concept of man as God's spiritual image-bearer gave birth to the "belief in the unique dignity of human beings," and this is
"...the force that created Western civilization, where citizens do not exist for the state but the state exists for the individuals. Even kings, presidents, prime ministers, and army generals cannot be allowed to trample upon an individual and his or her rights." (Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations, pp. 12-13)
Neo-pagan, anti-human God-haters
Darwinian materialists are anti-Triune God:
"The irony is devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even more incredible deity omnipotent chance...." (T. Rosazak, Unfinished Animal, pp. 101-102, 1975)
They hate the very thought of Him as their Father and seek escape to a nowhere land, an impersonal, collective communal unconscious where man as God's spiritual image-bearer, immutable truth, order, moral law, sexual ethics, authority, hell, heaven, angels, demons, meaning, and purpose do not exist. For these reasons and others, such as Original Sin and the two created sexes, they fiercely reject intelligent design but viciously hate creation ex nihilo, and choose rather to embrace evolutionary and materialist conceptions. The truth of this can be seen in the following quotes:
"The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. The voluntary...reasons for holding doctrines of materialism...may be predominantly erotic, as they were in the case of Lamettrie...or predominantly political as they were in the case of Karl Marx." (Aldous Huxley, "Ends and Means," p. 315, from Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, E. Michael Jones, p. 27)
"...one belief that all true original Darwinians held in common, and that was their rejection of creationism, their rejection of special creation. This was the flag around which they assembled and under which they marched.... The conviction that the diversity of the natural world was the result of natural processes and not the work of God was the idea that brought all the so-called Darwinians together in spite of their disagreements on other of Darwin's theories." (One Long Argument, 1991, p. 99, Ernst Mayr (d. 2005), Professor of Zoology at Harvard University)
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." ("Billions and Billions of Demons," Richard Lewontin, PhD Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University)
Metaphysical nihilism: everything and nothing
Metaphysical nihilism (all that exists is matter and energy) is the metaphysics of both physical materialism and nonphysical materialist conceptions.
What chiefly separates these two is whether matter is physical or nonphysical. If physical, then the Triune God, heaven, hell, soul/spirit, angels, and demons do not exist. But if nonphysical, then for example, spirits, ghosts, divine sparks, Transcended Masters, intra-cosmic deities, Orobouros, astral planes, divine impersonal mind, and Christ consciousness exist but the material world is an illusion.
Brooks Alexander, the founder of The Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP), an evangelical ministry and think-tank in Berkeley, California, identifies both physical and nonphysical materialist conceptions as the two sides of pagan monism. Because they are from the same root, they tend to cross-pollinate and mingle,
"...producing a brood of offspring that exhibits the genetic heritage of its parents in a confused and confusing array. Soon it becomes impossible to say whether a given movement, trend or school of thought is a secular impulse that has absorbed Eastern/occult values, or an Eastern/occult teaching that has dressed itself in secular language." (The Rise of Cosmic Humanism: What is Religion?" Brooks Alexander, SCP Journal, 1981-82, p. 2)
In other words, for many years secular-human physicalists have been quietly crossing over into spiritual or cosmic conceptions of matter and embracing for example, Zen Buddhism and Teilhards idea, which leapfrogs off of Darwin's theory.
The apostate French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) taught that an impersonal god-force emerges from spontaneously generated matter. According to Teilhard, this evolution of a god-force results in evolution becoming "conscious of itself" and ultimately, in the transformation of all physical matter into nonphysical divine matter defined by Teilhard as "Christ consciousness" or "pure spirit." Teilhard called this final stage of evolution the "Omega Point" and "the cosmic Christ."
You can be as God
The perennially persuasive Big Lie underlies both physical and nonphysical conceptions. This thought is expressed openly in the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Dr. Beverly Galyean, leading exponent of occult Luciferian New Age confluent education:
"The Buddhists and the Jains do not depend on God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion: to evolve a God out of man." (Inspired Talks, Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center, 1958, p. 218)
"Once we begin to see that we are all God, that we have the attributes of God, then, I think the whole purpose of human life is to reown the Godlikeness within us...So my whole view is very much based on that idea." (Galyean quoted by Francis Adeney, Educators Look East, Radix 12, No. 3, Nov-Dec. 1980, p. 21)
This same idea expressed in secular terms such as self-realization and self-actualization (a term coined by Abraham Maslow) underlies many contemporary psychotherapies.
Nihilism: You are of nothing
"Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination." Isaiah 41:24
Though evolutionary materialists congratulate themselves for being scientifically enlightened, cutting edge 'elite' free thinkers, the truth is otherwise, meaning that materialists, whether of the secular physical or occult spiritual school are miserable self-deceived nihilists for whom there is neither source for "self" (conscious life, psyche, individual mind) nor for meaning and purpose in life. They are "of nothing" and the unreality of their own existence is the devastating price they have paid the devil, the father of death and nihilism, for "saving" them from the living God.
The misery inducing "salvation" of "nonself" is not something new but something ancient. It began with Buddha who craved God-like power to deconstruct and reinterpret the soul. Taking power not only requires the murder of God but the teaching of lies.
Jesus to Buddha,
"....you took God away from them (and) your espousal of an absence of self is the most unique and fearsome claim you made...You turned from Hinduism because it said there was an essential self, which they called the atman." (The Lotus and the Cross: Jesus Talks with Buddha, Ravi Zacharias, pp.59, 67)
Six centuries before Jesus Christ, the Buddha already knew that if all that exists is matter then the human self cannot exist either:
"Therefore, he deconstructed the Hindu idea of the soul. When one starts peeling the onion skin of one's psyche, he discovers that there is no solid core at the center of one's being. Your sense of self is an illusion. Reality is nonself (anatman). You don't exist. Liberation, the Buddha taught, is realizing the unreality of your existence." (The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, Vishal Mangalwadi, p. 6)
If all that exists is matter and energies working on and through matter, then it logically follows that there is no source for life, conscious life (soul, spirit and will), the two sexes, human dignity and worth, or for unalienable constitutional rights beginning with the right to life, liberty, and property. Without the Triune God, meaning drains into meaninglessness and man is reduced to less than nothing, a conclusion Buddha reached long before Marxist Communists attempted to scientifically re-engineer human beings after the fashion of metaphysical nihilism.
"Thought crime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for awhile....but sooner or later they were bound to get you." George Orwell, 1984
After seizing control of Russia, Marxist materialists utilized propaganda of the lie, re-education with major emphasis on Darwinism, revision of history, and other confusion-inducing, mind-and-thought-control techniques in connection with brain-altering drugs, electro-shock therapy, terror, and other brutal measures to
"...liquidate all expressions of individual identity in favor of an impersonal collective, communal consciousness." (The Book that Made Your World, Vishal Mangalwadi, p. 74)
Following in Buddha's footsteps, Western and American evolutionary materialists took our Creator away and replaced Him with nihilist Darwinian materialism. Then they conceptually reduced His spiritual image-bearers to less than nothing, taught monstrous lies as scientific fact, morally corrupted Westerners and Americans, and brutally ridiculed and demonized anyone who dared speak truth to their lies. By these means they set Western and American civilization adrift in infinite nothingness.
Nihilism is spiritual, moral, intellectual, and cultural suicide. It is the devil's inferno here on earth, the void of everything and nothing in which death is life, evil is good, lie is truth, up is down, male is female, female is male, rolling in filth is good clean fun, bad is good but evil better, and the father of nihilism is god.
Choose eternal blessing and not cursing
The unreality of "self" is a waking nightmare fueled by horrors of conscience, obsession with death, and hellish terrors of mind that make suicide, murder, abortion, euthanasia, and genocide into virtues.
"...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life...." Deuteronomy 30:19-20
"Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit." Psalm 30:3
The Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Living Word become Flesh, Jesus Christ the Physician, came to heal the spiritually sick and dying, to save their immortal souls. Just as we are on the verge of going down into the pit, ready to depart to the unseen world, if we will repent and turn back to Him, then by His providence and grace our Lord will revive our souls and deliver us from those accursed horrors of conscience and ghastly terrors of mind which by reason of our sin are as hell searing itself into and possessing our very minds. (Psalm 116:3)
But whoever rejects the Physician, the Divine Source of life and soul, rejects His prescription, thereby destroys him or herself. So we ought to turn back to Him right now, before it is too late.
Thank you for the post. I have always said that evolution essentially removes the obligation of man to worship God. With no obligation to God, anything is possible, ergo you see the results in current culture.
What is a "Darwinist?"
Is that like a "Einsteinist?"
>>Thank you for the post. I have always said that evolution essentially removes the obligation of man to worship God. <<
It does no such thing. You confuse cause with effect.
Now I shall silently watch the thread and say no more.
If the truth is on your side, why do you resort to such insults?
Amazing how the Enemy can take the first few chapters of Genesis and turn it into a bone of contention between believers.
I am not taking the bait.
The Catholic church doesn't seem to think so.
Is that like a Einsteinist?
It's more like a "Watson-Crickest", I would say. Einstein is more for the physics worshippers.
Let's be very clear: this Stephen Meyer is *NOT* a biologist. His PhD is in physics.
I guess if I could come up with some ludicrous claim about physics, I could write books on it and make lots of money, too. After all, I have a PhD after my name—and it's in science—so that makes me perfectly qualified to write about physics.
Whatever the hype about this book, I don't expect most scientists are even going to notice it. We have our hands full with, you know, actual science.
an idiot that has "faith" in a theory that has no tangible proof yet accuse Creationists of the same thing.
If the truth is on your side, why do you resort to such insults?
Spirited: You have it backward. What you mistake for insult is in fact truth. From the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans in the West to Buddhists and Hindus in the East and native Americans throughout the Americas, all worship matter and energy in one form or another; and under one name or another. And this is pagan monism.
ping to read with coffee (it ain't making it with the beer!)
Thanx for the ping. So good to see some of the inspired writing of Ravi Zacharias being quoted.
By traditional definition of the word "science", the scientific enterprise requires a commitment to "methodological naturalism" meaning: natural explanations for natural processes.
Science cannot and is not intended to deal with spiritual or metaphysical matters.
Even if, for example, "G*d" is the best answer for a question, then science must throw up its hands and say, "we don't know" or ascribe it to some process of random chance.
That's the traditional nature of science.
And the results are exactly as the article describes -- when methodological naturalism leads to philosophical naturalism, then the soul, in effect, commits suicide and humans become, well, less than human.
Perhaps the analogy of fire will help -- when humans are in charge of it, fire (or science) is highly useful for heating and cooking, etc.
When fire takes charge, it can instantly kill us.
That's the difference between methodological and philosophical naturalism.
Of course, there is no scientific "faith", since to become a faith, science must be elevated from methodological to philosophical naturalism, and philosophical naturalism, by definition, is not science, it's religion.
Can I say that more simply?
Science is intended to be a box of tools, highly useful in building or repairing our material needs -- that's methodological naturalism.
But if we set our box of tools up on some alter, and bow down to worship it, that does not increase the utility of those tools, and makes us into idiots -- that's philosophical naturalism.
Nor does science ever use the term "tangible proof" relating to hypotheses and theories.
Instead, hypotheses are "confirmed" according to their ability to make strong predictions and withstand falsifiable tests.
Since basic evolution hypotheses have passed these tests many times, they are considered "confirmed theories".
And scientists do not have "faith" in a theory.
Instead, like other tools in their tool-box, scientists use the theory in every-day work, until it produces some result they didn't expect.
Then they sit down, scratch their heads, and begin work on some new hypothesis to explain their unexpected results.
That's what science is all about.
I'm not convinced Darwinism and Spiritualism are incompatible.
I am sure that strict materialism is a dead end, though. Materialism seems to describe only part of all reality.
I and most Creationists have no problem with " science" it's the evolutionists lies about creation that is an offence to us. I have three or four different books showing that The religion on Darwin is not only false but impossible I will go so far as to say that anyone that believes that NOTHING created something and the human eyeball was the work of chance is more than stupid. Yet some so called Scientist would rather believe that than admit to a super natural Creator.
Any evolution believers here that would like to explain what caused the " big bang"? I thought not.
Sorry. Hogwash.
Political evolutionists, by ignorance or intent, use only a portion of the title of Charles Darwin's book. The full title is "The Origin of Species and The Superiority of the Races." Whoops...that doesn't fit the liberal agenda.
"Political evolutionists, by ignorance or intent, use only a portion of the title of Charles Darwins book. The full title is The Origin of Species and The Superiority of the Races. Whoops...that doesnt fit the liberal agenda."
Sorry, but no. The full title of the first edition of the book was: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life." Darwin doesn't even talk about human beings in the book. The word "Race" in the title is used in the 19th Century Victorian English sense, as in a group of animals that can interbreed. Modern readers who obviously haven't read the book and regard Darwin as some kind of comic-book super-villain see the word "race" and point and sputter, but Darwin wasn't referring to what we now term human races.
For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to "The Origin of Species."
"What is a Darwinist?"
Spirited: To the narrow-eyed and small-minded it's an exciting bone to endlessly gnaw and contend against.
Sorry, but those arguments are all bogus.
They've been addressed and refuted many times by serious scientists.
Many have been presented on these threads, and answered by amatures like myself.
If you wish to report your favorites here, I'll be happy to respond to each.
Let me just remind you now that it's very important not to confuse scientific facts with hypotheses and theories.
There are many confirmed observations (aka "facts") supporting evolution related hypotheses, but confirmation of a hypothesis is required before it can be classified as "theory".
Since some hypotheses related to evolution have been confirmed many times, they are classified as "theories".
But others have not been confirmed and are still considered as just hypotheses.
Examples are origin of life ideas like abiogenesis and panspermia.
fish hawk: "I will go so far as to say that anyone that believes that NOTHING created something and the human eyeball was the work of chance is more than stupid."
Let me explain your problem with some questions:
Question: do you believe in G*d? Answer: of course.
Question: do you believe that G*d created the Universe? Answer: of course.
Question: do you believe that G*d created the Universe with His purposes, design and plan in mind? Answer: of course.
Question: do you believe that what we see in the material world represents the unfolding of G*d's original plan? Answer: of course.
Question: then, if what we see appears to be evolutionary, in what possible sense is that not part of G*d's plan? Answer: in no sense.
So what is your problem with evolution?
I came across this in my reading the other day, and it seems to confirm your insight:
Today's science has achieved remarkable successes and is an indispensable aspect of humanity. Without science, there can be no progress. Yet, science cannot explain, it is not equipped to explain anything that is not subject to algorithmic rules, to ordinary mathematical descriptions, or in the case of physical systems, partial differential equations. It cannot explain the qualitative aspects of reality. Present science cannot completely explain not only living processes in large aggregates of cells, organisms, etc., or what we may term holistic organizations (it certainly has had great success to account for molecular biochemical processes), but also noetic aspects of reality, mind and consciousness. It cannot explain or even account for the experiences of art, for the entire experience of human life, driven by the emotional levels of the psyche. And certainly it has little to say about the deep underlying nature of the cosmos, or reality, in general.... We believe that present-day science needs to be extended beyond its present limits and it needs a new ontological model of reality, what we term here the science of wholeness. Menas Kafatos, "The Science of Wholeness," in Analectica Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, Volume CVII Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment, 2011, A-T Tymieniecka and A. Grandpierre, eds.Kafatos wrote a wonderful book, coauthored with Robert Nadeau, The Non-Local Universe. Highly recommended!
It will be argued that it is not science's business to deal with the qualitative aspects of reality. But if one is trying to understand the Universe in toto, and man's place in it (not to mention the emergence of life and mind), one cannot leave them out. To attempt to do so is a kind of falsification of reality.
Thank you for writing, freerepublicchat!
Spirited: To the narrow-eyed and small-minded its an exciting bone to endlessly gnaw and contend against.
Perhaps you should stop using the term, then, lest someone conclude that you are narrow-eyed and small-minded.
The point of my response is this: nitpickers are narrow-eyed and small-minded precisely because they focus on and chew away at the small and unimportant as a way of controlling and dominating other people. As for your suggestion: I never allow such people to control and dominate my thoughts and speech.
And the point of my response is that you seem to be the person here who's determined to gnaw on the term "Darwinist." Your post is an excellent pot-kettle-black example.
Whoever can control the terminology controls the debate. Agreeing to an immutable definition means a loss of control.
My problem with the religion of evolution is: they talk like there is fossil evidence when there isn't, put down creationists because they have faith ( so that is religion and not science) when evos have absolutely no proof to lay out before us fossil or otherwise but they have faith that someday they will dig it up ( religion not science). The play like the first and second laws of thermodynamics ( and entropy) does not exist. (which of course makes evolution impossible) And Mathematics which tells ;us that if life was by selection and time and chance, it would be a one with enough zeros behind it to fill enough book pages to reach to the moon if stacked up. So how 'bout YOU entering here your absolute proof of evolution, NOT Micro (changes in a species like dogs and bird beaks) but Macro, dogs to cats, lizards to birds chimps to man.) If you can show us that, you have more proof than the leading Evo scientist alive today. Question: what evidence proves that life evolved from nonliving molecules? Evos answer: Don't reject a scientific theory just because you have a religious prejudice. This is because they can't answer the question. try reading Defeating Darwinism by opening minds by Phillip E. Johnson ( yes, Darwin is an ism) Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, PHD. The collapse of Evolution by Scott M. Huse. Ready with an Answer by Ankerberg and Weldon ( False assumptions concerning Evolution. Read these and point out to us all the false info in them.
Do lies of omission count as "false info"?
My problem with some critics of evolution is that they hold to some cartoon version of the subject no matter how often they're exposed to the facts. There's tons of fossil evidence assuming you don't refuse to see it. The 2nd Law has nothing to do with evolution. Nobody claims dogs evolved to cats or chimps to man. Evolution doesn't depend on life "evolving" from nonliving molecules. It's very easy to criticize a field when you don't take the trouble to learn the first (true) thing about it.
BY WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, no doubt I know way more truth than you do. Enjoy the cool aid. ( and read the books I mentioned.)Oh, BTW would you tell us what caused what we call the Big Bang. only a God hating idiot would think that nothing nowhere made matter. Notice, I didn't say YOU were an idiot, just those that are religious zealots for Darwin.
evidently lies of omission do count, as you people try to make the general public believe there is a fossil that proves evolution is a fact. Fossil data has so many gaps and holes in it , it looks like the bodies at the St. Valentines shooting.
"you people"?
Apparently you don't know enough not to pull out the old "cats evolving from dogs" canard.
only a God hating idiot would think that nothing nowhere made matter.
So without saying I believe that, I'd be interested in hearing your explanation of (a) why that's idiotic and (b) why it implies a hatred of God.
Thank you so very much for the insightful, informative essay, dear sister in Christ!
Good thing she's not running for president as a buzz cut guy with big ears.
Didn't take long for it to get personal.
When fire takes charge, it can instantly kill us. That's the difference between methodological and philosophical naturalism.
Problems arise when people "do" theology or philosophy under the color of science, e.g. Dawkins, Lewontin. And, no doubt, some would also say that intelligent design supporters - e.g. Meyers - are doing the same thing from the polar opposite position, i.e. pro-God v. anti-God.
In my view, it would be better for a scientist faced with an unanswerable question (e.g. origin of inertia, information [Shannon, successful communication], space/time) simply to say "it is unknowable by the scientific method" rather than to default to his theological/philosophical presupposition - whether "God did it" or "Nature did it." Both are statements of faith. And offering a statement of faith is fine, but it should not be called "science" because it was not derived by the scientific method and cannot be falsified (Popper et al.)
Science is not the enemy of Christianity, though some atheists claim that it is.
The Hebrew term 'bara' is used three times in Genesis, one of which is when single celled living things are transitioned by God intervention into organisms of multi-cellular cooperative functioning. The word is not used to differentiate the expression of life arising in the lifeless Universe, so we may conclude that the expression of life was 'built into the plans' for the Universe at the moment of the first use of bara for descriptor. The third use is when God breathed the Spirit into Adam. These moments described with the use of bara might be seen as interventions specifically by God for new creations not built into the original starting phenomenon. At the first moment of Creation, all the dimensions to be expressed came into being and will manifest as phase shifts reveal the growing complexity.
Evidently such questions are simply banned from, say, the Journal of Theoretical Biology, which is probably the field's flagship journal....
There seems to be an almost religious commitment to the doctrines of naturalism and materialism over there.
Nonetheless, I do believe that a paradigm shift is coming sooner or later not motivated by biologists per se, but by physicists and mathematicians.
I'm all for "cross-disciplinary" investigation of the issues of life and mind.... We probably need to have philosophy weigh in, too. This will drive the Darwinists nutz!
Thank you so much for writing, dearest sister in Christ!
There are fundamental reasons why physics and biology require different levels of models, the most obvious one is that physical theory is described by rate-dependent dynamical laws that have no memory, while evolution depends, at least to some degree, on control of dynamics by rate-independent memory structures. A less obvious reason is that Pearson's "corpuscles" are now described by quantum theory while biological subjects require classical description in so far as they function as observers. This fact remains a fundamental problem for interpreting quantum measurement, and as I mention below, this may still turn out to be essential in distinguishing real life from macroscopic classical simulacra. I agree with Mayr that physics and biology require different models, but I do not agree that they are autonomous models. Physical systems require many levels of models, some formally irreducible to one another, but we must still understand how the levels are related. Evolution also produces hierarchies of organization from cells to societies, each level requiring different models, but the higher levels of the hierarchy must have emerged from lower levels. Life must have emerged from the physical world. This emergence must be understood if our knowledge is not to degenerate (more than it has already) into a collection of disjoint specialized disciplines.
To the observer, it is as if the historical sciences construct a blueprint based on quantized historical data (fossils, artifacts, etc.) and thereafter associate new findings into that blueprint. If the finding cannot be fit, then the blueprint must change.
The historical record is not continuous, e.g. not every living thing left a fossil in the geologic record. The bottom line is that historical sciences deal with quantizations of a presumed continuum (the theory.) Other disciplines of science, deal with the theory itself - which mostly can be recreated under laboratory conditions, i.e. put to an empirical test. Or in the alternative, continuing observations can accrue to the merit of the theory, e.g. quantum field theory.
Or more simply put, to the historical sciences the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence whereas to the "hard" sciences the reverse is true, the absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
Biologists have always invited chemists to the table. But the dynamics of evolution theory has changed since the discovery of DNA and subsequently, the biologists inviting physicists and mathematicians (especially information theorists) to the table. That is the underlying theme of Pattees point about the physics of symbols, the epistemic cut.
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Global or indirect illumination effects such as interreflections and subsurface scattering severely degrade the performance of structured light-based 3D scanning. In this paper, we analyze the errors in structured light, caused by both long-range (interreflections) and short-range (subsurface scattering) indirect illumination. The errors depend on the frequency of the projected patterns, and the nature of indirect illumination. In particular, we show that long-range effects cause decoding errors for low-frequency patterns, whereas short-range effects affect high-frequency patterns.
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U.K. dividend payouts soared by 25% in the first quarter of 2012 to reach £18.8bn ($30bn), according to the latest Dividend Monitor report from Capita Registrars, which analyses data provided by Exchange Data International.
In total, British firms paid out £3.8bn ($6.1bn) more than the same period in 2011, making 2012 a record for the first quarter.
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Special dividends were a big feature of 2011, and Capita is expecting that these are going to make an even larger contribution to the 2012 totals.
The headline total dividend payout for Q1 was boosted by two very large distorting factors. Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD) and Cairn Energy each paid out £2.2bn ($3.5bn) in the form of special dividends, (the latter in an unconventional structure, which Capita opted nevertheless to include in the analysis).
Vodafone's reflects the strong performance at Verizon Wireless, in which it owns a 45% shareholding, while Cairn was returning cash to shareholders on the disposal of assets in India.
Adjusting for one-off factors underlying dividend growth was just 6.6% year on year in the first quarter, much slower than the 12.8% underlying increase in the full year 2011 and below Capita's forecast growth rate for 2012.
The FTSE 100 dividend payouts grew 27.6% year on year to £17.7bn ($28.3bn), boosted by the big special payments. Underlying growth was however a slightly disappointing 7.7%.
This is partly according to Capita because the share counts at Vodafone and AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) (two of the dividend giants) have shrunk more than Capita expected due to very large share buyback programmes, so the total dividend distribution from these firms is lagging some way behind the per share dividend increase.
While the one-offs have made the big difference, Capita were surprised by falling dividends from the FTSE250 - for the first time since 2009. Capita believes this is because they were deciding payments during the Q4 economic soft patch and when the credit markets began to dry up again during the euro crisis. The experience during the 2008/9 crunch was that firms hoarded cash.
The FTSE 250 showed most weakness, although its dividends made up a mere 5% of the Q1 total. The dividend payout fell £90m (9%) year on year to £915m, the first quarterly decline since 2009. Part of the weakness reflects technical factors to do with stocks being promoted to the FTSE100.
159 companies paid a dividend in the first quarter, two more than the same period last year. Of these, 115 increased, commenced or reinstated payments, compared to 124 who did so in Q1 2011. 26 cut them, more than the 20 who cut last year. Nine held them steady and only four cancelled them.
After the £5.1bn ($8.2bn) from the oil & gas sector, telecoms was the next largest sector paying out £4.2bn, with a further £2.7bn ($4.3bn) coming from healthcare.
Financials contributed £2.1bn ($34.bn). Basic industries, consumer services, healthcare and utilities all saw a fall in their first quarter dividend payouts, the most dramatic in the utilities sector.
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Balance sheets are currently in good shape owing to high margins and low investment. Ernst & Young's Item Club recently estimated U.K. Plc's cash pile at £754bn, about half of GDP.
Capita expects an acceleration in U.K. dividend payouts as the year progresses, providing the eurozone doesn't implode again.
Capita has in fact revised its headline forecast for the full year upwards by £1.3bn ($2.1bn) to a new cash record of £76.3bn ($122bn), reflecting the Cairn Energy effect.
This is an increase of 12.2% on 2011, but is still short of the £77bn ($123bn) needed to top 2008 after adjusting for inflation. However, despite the higher headline forecast, Capita has cut its underlying forecast growth rate to 8.2% for the full year to reflect the slower first quarter.
The eurozone still presents the biggest risk to Capita's forecast. Peripheral economies are still in big trouble and the crisis may yet derail the British economic recovery, rather than simply slow it as it has to date.
Charles Cryer, Chief Executive of Capita Registrars said:
"2012 will comfortably be another record year for dividend growth. We have upgraded our headline forecast to reflect the big one-offs, but the picture is more complex than the headlines suggest.
The economy stumbled in the fourth quarter as the eurozone crisis knocked confidence in Britain and raised fears of a new credit crunch. Access to finance is a crucial factor determining how much firms are prepared to pay out nowadays, so fears of a renewed funding crisis in the banking system will have a knock-on effect. Roughly two thirds of firms who paid in the first quarter decided their dividends before the New Year; the Q4 economic weakness seems to have caused them to show greater caution.
Early evidence suggests the economy was in better shape through the first quarter, and as the eurozone crisis abates, this may give companies greater confidence to return cash as the year goes by. For this reason we expect dividend growth will accelerate from here, but not enough to meet our original underlying forecast. Europe's problems remain very serious. With the focus moving towards Spain, the crisis could return at any time, so the risks for the rest of the year are high."
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