[quote user="blakeyrat"]And C# has Nuget. And it's a terrible idea. And you shouldn't use it. (Except perhaps to do the initial download of the library before you add it to your project.) [/quote]NuGet does download the binaries to your local instance and does not force you to upgrade to the latest verions of ...

[quote user="ArrivingRaptor"]I think what gets me is converting the date to a string, then to a number, and finally back to a date, all for absolutely no reason. I could understand if he went straight to number and adding the one there, indicating he doesn't understand how databases handle dates.[/quote]It does seem like ...

[quote user="Lorne Kates"]We know the speed of light. We can see light from billions of light years away.[/quote]Might not be the best leg to stand on.  We do know the speed of light in a vacuum, but with the universe expanding and accelerating, we don't yet know the impact of the so-called "dark matter" and "dark ...

[quote user="Ben L."][quote user="The Bytemaster"]He stated several assumptions, including:Others...[/quote] what[/quote]Other assumtions in addition to those three.  I am going from memory here.. you are going to make me dig out my reference material, I suppose.

[quote user="Ben L."]An exercise for the readers of this post: Read the first chapter of your favorite religious text, but replace "God" with "Entropy". Suddenly, it's science fiction plus rape![/quote] And where do you get rape from in Genesis 1?  On the other hand, chapter breaks and verses were only ...

[quote user="Ben L."]So if the world is 6000 years old, [/quote] The person who originally wrote down the assumptions that became known as the 6000 years theory was asked to calculate how old the earth was based on The Bible.  He stated several assumptions, including:There are no gaps in the GeneologiesThe Geneologies purpose (or a ...

[quote user="BC_Programmer"]Most believers are in it to feel better about themselves, often at the expense of others, and don't give a shit about what the bible actually says. [/quote]Unfortunately, most people don't care what it actually says.[quote user="BC_Programmer"] That is Most, not All. The rest become ...

[quote user="eViLegion"][[quote user="joe.edwards"]Dunning-Kruger effect is the cognitive bias such that ignorant/unintelligent people are so ignorant that they're unaware of just how ignorant they are and give positive estimation on their capabilities, whereas experts/intelligent people know so much more that they're ...

I knew people in this forum were great with ridicule, but now I know they are great with building and destroying strawmen and thinking that solves it.  Sounds more like management types rather than coders. I know the story from the original post was laughable, but just because there are foolish people does not make The Bible or believers in ...

If you use the definition of "flesh" as stated in 1st Corinthians 15:39, you could fit 7 of each kind in a rowboat. Kind != Species